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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. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Howard Nemerov

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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. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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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. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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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. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

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The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

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