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When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

~Howard Nemerov

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When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

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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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Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

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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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Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 29th, 1920

Died: July 5th, 1991

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