Philip Levine Poet Quotations

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

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

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.