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
I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – 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
Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. We go forth austere, dedicated, believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life: but a book, or a bust, or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will… – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men: Seven Lectures, “IV: Montaigne; Or, the