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Quotes by Howard Nemerov
- I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
- I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
- I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
- 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.
- I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
- I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
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