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I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
Philip Levine
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I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
Philip Levine
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
Philip Levine
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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 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.
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 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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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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