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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probab

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine

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I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine

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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. Youll have that readership. Keep going until you know youre doing work thats worthy. And then see what happens. Thats my advice. – Philip Levine

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me its the home of the extraordinary, the only home. – Philip Levine

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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