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Philip Levine Quotes
«It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.»
Author: Philip Levine
«In my twenties, before I learned how to write poems of work, I thought of myself as the person who would capture this world.»
Author: Philip Levine
«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.»
Author: Philip Levine
«My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.»
Author: Philip Levine
«My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.»
Author: Philip Levine
«Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Philip Levine
«No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.»
Author: Philip Levine
«I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.»
Author: Philip Levine
«My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.»
Author: Philip Levine