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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

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: February 29, 1920
Died: July 5, 1991

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Language cares.
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I have a plot, but not much happens.
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A chronicle is very different from history proper.
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
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A lot happens by accident in poetry.
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When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
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