It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it. -Philip Levine

 

It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.


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I write what's given me to write.

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I was eighteen or nineteen years old, and I'd get these genius ideas for novels and try to finish then in three or four days without going to sleep.

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It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it. -Philip Levine
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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. -Philip Levine
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

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