Philip Levine American Poet Quotations

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.

It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.

American poets have been criticized for anything you can think of. For being too English, recently for not being English enough.