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Philip Levine Quotes

American - Poet | January 10, 1928 - February 14, 2015

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

Young Old Poet About Too Written

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.

Work Keep Going Poetry People Advice

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.

Live God Power Find Mercy Others

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Family Father Strong Up Five Died

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.

Parents Me Feel Sense Just Like

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

You Too Much Sound Fraud Write Just

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

I Am Poetry Memory People Up Poet

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.

Home Poetry Me Writing Think Now

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

Mother Poetry Ambition Write Her Us

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.

Eyes Time Moment Saying Look Pay

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Change Now Hard Imagine Dramatic

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Mother Me Become Lucky Poet Who

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