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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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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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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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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they cant understand it or that it will be boring. – Caroline Kennedy

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg

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Im thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are. – Brett Favre

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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – J.K. Galbraith

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How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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