"I write what's given me to write." — Philip Levine
"I write what's given me to write."
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Philip Levine
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29 Quotes by Philip Levine
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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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I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.
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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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