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“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”

Howard Nemerov · Poetry

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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.

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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

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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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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

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