First time Quote by Philip Levine

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

— Philip Levine

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

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

— Philip Levine

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

— Philip Levine

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

— Philip Levine

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

— Philip Levine

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

— Philip Levine

“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

“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

“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

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

— Philip Levine

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

— Philip Levine