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Philip Levine quotes

American Poet January 10, 1928

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Philip Levine quote: "I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. Philip Levine
Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and sleeps when he rises to face this life, and that together they are only one man sharing a heart that always labours, hands yellowed and cracked, a mouth that gasps for breath and asks, Am I gonna make it? Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son,..."
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand. Philip Levine
As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. Philip Levine
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of..."
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become..."
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. Philip Levine
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. Philip Levine
the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been..."
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew..."
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. Philip Levine
Philip Levine quote: "I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three..."
I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. Philip Levine
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. Philip Levine

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