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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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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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I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. ↗

— Philip Levine

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We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can. ↗

— Jacob Lew

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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. ↗

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

— 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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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

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