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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with

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 is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – 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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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. – Christopher Columbus

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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. – Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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