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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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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. – Author Unknown

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Poetry

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel

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Poetry

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry

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