But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.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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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
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When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.
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We work in rain,
heat, snow, sleet.
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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
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