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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.

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

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

Philip Levine
Three, Jazz, Hours

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

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

Philip Levine
Years, Gone, Left

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

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

Philip Levine
Poet, Young, Written

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

Philip Levine
Mother, Lucky, Poet

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

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

Philip Levine
Home, Son, Listening

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

Philip Levine
Intensity

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