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Philip Levine
American
January 10, 1928
Poet
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
Philip Levine
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Love
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
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Poetry
Had
Been
I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
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Power
Find
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
Philip Levine
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Just
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.
Philip Levine
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Home
Poetry
Me
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
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Your
Look
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
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Going
