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“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”

Howard Nemerov · Success

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Howard Nemerov

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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Howard Nemerov

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.

History

Howard Nemerov

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

History

Howard Nemerov

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

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