Stills Quote by Philip Levine

“Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.”

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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 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,…

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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 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…

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Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.…

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I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and…

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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

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[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking…

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Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his…

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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

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I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

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I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it…

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

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