75 Quotes by Philip Levine
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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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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
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