The Simple Truth Quotes

“Oh, yes, let’s bless the imagination. It gives us the myths we live by. Let’s bless the visionary power of the human— the only animal that’s got it—, bless the exact image of your father dead and mine dead, bless the images that stalk the corners of our sight and will not let go.”
― Philip Levine, The Simple Truth: Poems

“If she were writing by candlelight she would now be in the dark, for a living flame would refuse to be fed by such pure exhaustion.”
― Philip Levine, The Simple Truth: Poems

“If she were writing by candlelight she would now be in the dark, for a living flame would refuse to be fed by such pure exhaustion. Actually she is in the dark, for the”
― Philip Levine, The Simple Truth: Poems