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Philip Levine

"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."

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