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

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man cant touch. – E. M. Forster

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, its the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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But for me, being an editor Ive been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. – Peter Davison

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You cant run a business or anything else on a theory. – Harold S. Geneen

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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

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