Philip Levine Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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Philip Levine quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 24 we have.

Philip Levine Quotes
“I write what's given me to write.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.”
“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.”
Philip Levine Quotes
“I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.”

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