Quote by Howard Nemerov
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. - How

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – 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. – Howard Nemerov

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