Quote by Philip Levine
I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it

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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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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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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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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