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From Quotes by Philip Levine
- You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
- For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
- 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.
- It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's…
- 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,…
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