No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. - Philip Levine Quotes
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. Philip Levine
 American Poet Fraud

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I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. - Philip Levine Quotes

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Philip Levine

 American Poet
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. - Philip Levine Quotes

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

Philip Levine

 American Poet
In my twenties, before I learned how to write poems of work, I thought of myself as the person who would capture this world. - Philip Levine Quotes

In my twenties, before I learned how to write poems of work, I thought of myself as the person who would capture this world.

Philip Levine

 Poems
My father's life seemed and still seems utterly mysterious to me. He came alone to the States from Russia at age eleven. - Philip Levine Quotes

My father's life seemed and still seems utterly mysterious to me. He came alone to the States from Russia at age eleven.

Philip Levine

 Life
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 Quotes

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

 American Poet
I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being in a hurry. - Philip Levine Quotes

I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being in a hurry.

Philip Levine

 
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 Quotes

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

 American Poet
Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry. - Philip Levine Quotes

Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.

Philip Levine

 American Poet
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 Quotes

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

 American Poet
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. - Philip Levine Quotes

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Philip Levine

 American Poet
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