Quote by Howard Nemerov
A lot happens by accident in poetry. - Howard Nemerov

A lot happens by accident in poetry. – Howard Nemerov

Other quotes by Howard Nemerov

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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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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Freedom
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Poetry
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Poetry

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

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Poetry

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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Poetry

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For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that youre not facing these things on your own. – David Cameron

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Faith

Collections of gnomes, adages, sayings, and parables have been made from times immemorial in all countries and in all languages possessing some kind of literature. – E.H. Michelsen, A Manual of Quotations from the Ancient, Modern, and Oriental La

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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power

Red ice sells hockey tickets. – Bob Stewart

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Hockey