Quote by Philip Levine
My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to wri

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine

Other quotes by Philip Levine

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Category:
Poetry

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. – Dylan Walsh

Category:
Poetry

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard

Category:
Depression

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer. – Scott Bakula

Category:
dad

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain

Category:
Birds

Theres always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that youre a fraud after all! – Ben Stiller

Category:
Fear