Fraud Quote by Philip Levine

“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.”

Philip Levine

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I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

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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…

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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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How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

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

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

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“He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.”

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“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I…

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“Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and…

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“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.”

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Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They…

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“ Our Valley We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August when the worst heat seems to rise from the…

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I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that…

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Voter fraud is common in America. Those who tell you otherwise are lying.

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