"I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
― Philip Levine
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Poetry
More From Philip Levine
- "There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
- "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."
- "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
More In Poetry
- "One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."― Robert Morgan
- "Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."― David Lee Roth
- "A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."― Yevgeny Yevtushenko