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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of

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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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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History
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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! – Mother Jones

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I was ecstatic they re-named French Fries as Freedom Fries. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. – Johnny Depp

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Theres a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didnt – and Jamaican stories. – Neil Gaiman

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I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed. – John Hench

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