"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
― Philip Levine
Topic(s):
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."
- "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
- "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
- "Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."― Wilfred Owen
- "Always be a poet, even in prose."― Charles Baudelaire
- "Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different."― Ian Hamilton Finlay