"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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Poetry
― Howard Nemerov
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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."
- "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 would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."― T. S. Eliot
- "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."― Naguib Mahfouz
- "“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know."― Andre Gide