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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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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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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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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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