Quotes by : Philip Levine

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and....

How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its....

Let me begin again as a speckof dust caught in the night windssweeping out to sea. Let me beginthis time....

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for....

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.....