"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."

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"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."

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Explore more quotes by Philip Levine

"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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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

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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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"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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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."

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"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."

Time

"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

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