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Philip Levine

"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."

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"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."

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"With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before."

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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

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"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

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"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

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"When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for."

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"Love! In the midst of ugliness, you're my beauty."

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"Either let me love more or let me go."

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"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
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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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"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."
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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 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."
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"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."
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"My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist."
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"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
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"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
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