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Philip Levine

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

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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.

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

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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

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I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

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DJ Spooky

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It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E. T. A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.

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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

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