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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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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – 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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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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