Philip Levine may refer to: (wikipedia)
You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
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.
Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.
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.
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.
I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.
