#poet

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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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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