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Quote by Philip Levine
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. Youll have

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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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – 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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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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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. – James Laughlin

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