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Philip Levine Quotes
Page 2 of 2Philip Levine
January 10, 1928 -
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet
|  It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. | | I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. | | I write what's given me to write. | | 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. |
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