"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry." ― Philip Levine Topic(s): Poetry More From Philip Levine "Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home." "I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity." "There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory." More In Poetry "I’m a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, it has results. It’s an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival."― Tommy Lee Jones "I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to."― Jewel Kilcher "I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry."― John Cage