Quote by Philip Levine
Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up wit

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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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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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 is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

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I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. – Phyllis Gotlieb

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As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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