"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
- "I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
- "My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
- "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
- "This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."― Eugenio Montale
- "That’s one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one’s little turn – that you’re just part of the great crop, as it were."― Paul Muldoon
- "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."― Naguib Mahfouz