Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine
I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine
My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine
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