"There'll always be working people in my poems……" — Philip Levine
"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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29 Quotes by Philip Levine
Philip Levine has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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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 Good Memories Quotes
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize…
— Samuel Beckett
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
— Saul Bellow
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
— Samuel Alexander
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
— Ray Charles
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory,…
— Isaac Asimov
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