No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
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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.
Philip Levine
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.
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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
Philip Levine
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
Philip Levine
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
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