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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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – 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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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. – Allen Tate

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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. – Vanessa Redgrave

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The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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