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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

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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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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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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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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. – Robert Frost

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if hes going to write poetry or songs. – Roger Waters

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I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And Im yet to pen a script, but it is something that Ive been telling myself I want to do. – Luke Treadaway

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