The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine
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
Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine
I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe