My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
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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.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
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
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The world takes up its trades; the man his wits,
And, bottom up, he mumbles from the deep,
"Life was a dream, Oh, may this death be sleep.
Philip Levine
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
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