"My temperament is not geared to that of…" — Philip Levine
"My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist."
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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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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 Geared Quotes
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps…
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Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are…
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It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place…
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My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't…
— Kylie Minogue
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The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to…
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...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's…
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We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not…
— Pope John Paul II
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The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this…
— Erich Fromm
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I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a…
— Laurene Powell Jobs
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Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.
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