"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."
-Philip Levine
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"My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.“
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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
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"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
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"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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