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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
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No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. All geniuses menstruate. On sorrow floats laughter. In the heart of roaring lurks silence.
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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
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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.
Philip Levine
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October 16, 1927
Died:
April 13, 2015
(aged 87)
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