Writing Quotes by Philip Levine

Philip Levine

Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.

Careers

Long

Writing

Philip Levine

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.

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Joy

Writing

Philip Levine

I write what’s given me to write.

Given

Writing

Philip Levine

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He’s just too much himself and not you.

Hype

Sound

Writing

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.

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Writing

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Ambition

Believe

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Dark

Destiny

Detroit

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Elegance

Facts

Father

Feels

Given

Giving

Going To Work

Gone

Grew

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Home

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Imagine

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Irony

Jazz

Joy

Lasts

Left

Like Me

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Lucky

Memories

Mercy

Mother

Naked

Notion

Novelists

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Ordinary

Parent

People

Poet

Poetry

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Saws

Sea

Seventies

Simple

Son

Song

Sound

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Strong

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Talking

Tears

Temperament

Thinking

Three

Useless

Voice

Waiting

Way

Way Of Talking

Who Cares

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Young

Writing Quotes by Philip Levine

I write what’s given me to write.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He’s just too much himself and not you.

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.

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