Quote by Philip Levine
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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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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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – 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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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand, 1851

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