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

— Philip Levine

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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

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

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

— Philip Levine

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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. ↗

— Joshua Logan

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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