Philip Levine Quotes

I Started Listening To Music When I Wrote When I Had Three Sons At Home.

But Most Commonly, It's One Poem That I Work On With A Lot Of Intensity.

I'm Seventy-one Now, So It's Hard To Imagine A Dramatic Change.

I Was Very Lucky To Have A Mother Who Encouraged Me To Become A Poet.

But I'm Too Old To Be Written About As A Young Poet.

I Listen To Jazz About Three Hours A Day. I Love Louis Armstrong.

My Father Died When I Was Five, But I Grew Up In A Strong Family.

Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A Poem A Year And Gone Back To It.

It's Ironic That While I Was A Worker In Detroit, Which I Left When I Was Twenty Six, My Sense Was That The Thing That's Going To Stop Me From Being A Poet Is The Fact That I'm Doing This Crummy Work.

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

Listen To These Young Poets And You'll Discover The Voice Of The Present And Hear The Voice Of The Future Before The Future Is Even Here.

I Say, Father, The Years Have Brought Me Here, Still Your Son, They Have Brought Me To A Life I Cannot Understand.