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Howard Nemerov Quotes
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
Howard Nemerov

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Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 29, 1920
Date of Death:
July 5, 1991
Nationality:
American
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Carl Sandburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
Bryant H. McGill

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