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Philip Levine Quotes: I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
         

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.


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My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.



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I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.



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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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You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.



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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.





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