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 Read Quote
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. Philip Levine Read Quote
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. Philip Levine Read Quote
There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. Philip Levine Read Quote
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He’s just too much himself and not you. Philip Levine Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
