KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Philip Levine Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Philip Levine

Showing 11-20 of 24 Quotes by Philip Levine

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I write what's given me to write.

~Philip Levine

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 10th, 1928

Died: February 14th, 2015

Links

Find Philip Levine on Amazon

Related Authors

Maya Angelou
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman

Popular Authors

Bill Burr W. Edwards Deming Milton Friedman Khalil Gibran Wayne Gretzky Jay-Z Michael Jordan William Wordsworth

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Architecture Dad Environmental Forgiveness Intelligence Mother's Day Nature Pet