There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with t… — Quoted

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“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”

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Philip Levine

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

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

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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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Philip Levine

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

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