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• 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.

  Philip Levine

  Voice, Poet, Young

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• I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

  Philip Levine

  Three, Jazz, Hours

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• It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

  Philip Levine

  Ironic, Detroit, Facts

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• Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

  Philip Levine

  Years, Gone, Left

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• My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

  Philip Levine

  Strong, Father, Grew

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

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

  Philip Levine

  Poet, Young, Written

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

  Philip Levine

  Mother, Lucky, Poet

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• I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

  Philip Levine

  Dramatic, Imagine, Seventies

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

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• I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

  Philip Levine

  Home, Son, Listening

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• But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

  Philip Levine

  Intensity

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