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Philip Levine

"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."

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"I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways."

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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."

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"I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious."

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."

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"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it."

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"I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old."

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"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."
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"I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong."
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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
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"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
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"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."
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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
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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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"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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"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."
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