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A lot happens by accident in poetry. - Howard Nemerov

A lot happens by accident in poetry. – Howard Nemerov

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The nice thing about the Bible is it doesnt give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. – Howard Nemerov

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Freedom
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Howard Nemerov
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Ive never read a political poem thats accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. – Howard Nemerov

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Poetry
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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You dont make a poem with ideas, but with words. – Stephane Mallarme

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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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