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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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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – 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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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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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. – Robert Frost

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. – Carol Ann Duffy

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