"There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory." ― Philip Levine Topic(s): Poetry More From Philip Levine "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry." "My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs." "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." More In Poetry "The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry."― Lafcadio Hearn "Prose talks and poetry sings."― Franz Grillparzer "We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible."― John Drinkwater