"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
-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 of the shadow's speed."
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"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 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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"A lot happens by accident in poetry."
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