"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."

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Philip Levine

#Voice Quotes #Poet Quotes #Young Quotes

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
“All ***** is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.”
“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
“When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.”

Source : "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November, 1997.
“Well you learn from making mistakes. It's that simple.”
“I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.”
“All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.”

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