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Howard Nemerov Quotes

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
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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