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Forward as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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.
Quotes By Howard Nemerov
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light they say forgetful...
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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes...
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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent...
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal...
Quotes About History
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If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
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For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades...
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
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History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
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In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...