Philip Levine Quotes

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

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.

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

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

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