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Philip Levine

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

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Philip Levine

I’m seventy-one now, so it’s hard to imagine a dramatic change.

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Philip Levine

I’m saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

– Philip Levine

Philip Levine

I write what’s given me to write.

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Philip Levine

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

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Philip Levine

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He’s just too much himself and not you.

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Philip Levine

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

– Philip Levine

Philip Levine

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

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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 others.

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Philip Levine

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

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Philip Levine

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

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Philip Levine

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

– Philip Levine

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