Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Charles Bukowski
Even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.
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Sanober Khan
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
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Dejan Stojanovic
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
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Dejan Stojanovic
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
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Dejan Stojanovic
More Quotes By Philip Levine
How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.
Let me begin again as a speckof dust caught in the night windssweeping out to sea. Let me beginthis time knowing the world issalt water and dark clouds, the worldis grinding and sighing all night, and dawncomes slowly, and changes nothing.
I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand...
… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. – Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
