"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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"My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.“
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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."
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"The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry."
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"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
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"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
-Judith Rodriguez
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"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."
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"Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold."
-Diane Glancy
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."
-Zona Gale
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