Poet Quote by Philip Levine Download Open image “But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.” — Philip Levine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry Writing Written Young Youth
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.” — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“From they sack and they belly opened And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth They feed they Lion and he comes.” — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way,… — Philip Levine Copy Share
“ Our Valley We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August when the worst heat seems to rise from the hard clay of this valley, you could be walking through a fig orchard when suddenly the wind cools and for a moment you get a whiff of salt, and in that moment you can almost believe… — Philip Levine Copy Share
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
