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

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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – 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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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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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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Its not easy to define poetry. – Bob Dylan

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. – Marianne Moore

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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords – philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. – Anna Jameson

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