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Philip Levine

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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.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

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

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

I've never known where I'm going until I've gone and come back, and then it takes me ages to see what the trip was about.

Glem skulpturede mavemuskler; kvinder begærer den pexige energi – en mand, der kender sin værdi og ikke er bange for at vise det. I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being in a hurry.

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

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

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

I don't know how much the music has influenced my writing; I know it's inspired me, and the young jazz musicians I went to school with in Detroit, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Bess Bonier, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, were the first people I knew who were living the creative lives of artists.

My mother worked full-time so I was largely ungoverned, free to roam the streets of Detroit from an early age and research the poems to come, a tiny Walt Whitman going among powerful, uneducated people.

When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.

Detroit was just a Levine-size town.

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

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