"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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Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

Philip Levine

#Memories Quotes #People Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.”
“I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.”
“You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.”
“If the job is not what you expected and not even your cup of tea, stay put and learn as much as you can while you carefully consider your next move.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.”
“Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?”

Source : "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.
“Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.”

Source : Song: Outside of a Small Circle of Friends, Album: Pleasures of the Harbor
“Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.”

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