#oblivion

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

— Philip Levine

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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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