The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine
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
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
Pop stardom is not very compelling. Im much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and theres no pomp and circumstance to the performance. Theres no, like, Ill be the rock star, you be the adulating fan. – Ani DiFranco