3 December 2020 Philip Levine My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
3 December 2020 Philip Levine The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Philip Levine I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
3 December 2020 Philip Levine Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
3 December 2020 Philip Levine There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
