"I find you in these tears, few, useless……" — Philip Levine
"I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back."
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29 Quotes by Philip Levine
Philip Levine has 29 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over,…
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You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
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How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
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I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I…
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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state…
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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
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I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to…
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More Come Back Quotes
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come…
— Lance Armstrong
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
— Richard Bach
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month…
— Bryan Adams
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a…
— Russell Banks
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
— Javier Bardem
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back…
— Javier Bardem
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
— Drew Barrymore
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
— Dirk Benedict
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think…
— Matthew Bourne
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance…
— Edward Albee
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