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.
More Quotes from Philip Levine:
Let him repeat that prayer,the prayer that night follows day,
that life follows death, that in time
we find our lives.
Philip Levine
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
Philip Levine
I have endured, as Godless Nazarite,
Life like a bone even a dog would slight;
All that the dog would have, I have refused.
Philip Levine
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
Philip Levine
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
Philip Levine
It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.
Philip Levine
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