In my twenties, before I learned how to write poems of work, I thought of myself as the person who would capture this world.
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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.Philip Levine
My mother worked full-time so I was largely ungoverned, free to roam the streets of Detroit from an early age and research the poems to come, a tiny Walt Whitman going among powerful, uneducated people.
Philip Levine
I write what's given me to write.
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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.
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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
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To love and to be loved, I've drunk for love.
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