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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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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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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn

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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now Ill be more contented working in an office than ever before. – Hart Crane

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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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