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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep wri

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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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – 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 musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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Lyres are placid in the hands of poets; but the true lyre is the poet himself. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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