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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

~Howard Nemerov

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I have a plot, but not much happens.

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I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

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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.

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

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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.

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I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 29th, 1920

Died: July 5th, 1991

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