Best quotes by Howard Nemerov on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Howard Nemerov on Poetry

• ‟ I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

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• ‟ I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

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• ‟ It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

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• ‟ A lot happens by accident in poetry.

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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.

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