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Famous Philip Levine Quotes
“For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.”
“Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.”
“But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.”
“I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.”
“I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.”
“I write what's given me to write.”
“I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.”
“My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.”
“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.”
“I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.”
“My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.”
“The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.”
“My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.”
“I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.”
“You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.”
“How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.”