"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
-Howard Nemerov
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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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"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."
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"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
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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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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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