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Howard Nemerov
 
Date of birth: 29 February 1920
Date of death: 05 July 1991
Country Of Origin: America
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" A chronicle is very different from history proper. "

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" A lot happens by accident in poetry. "

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" A reputable actress said I didn't understand people. I said, Thank God For That! "

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" A teacher is a person who never says anything once. "

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" Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves. "

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" After Robert Frost and I became friends, and after he died, I wrote a poem about a couple of maple trees I'd walked under every Autumn. "

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" As it's said, if you talk to God it's prayer. If God talks to you it's paranoia. "

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" Ezra Pound said a teacher is a person who must talk for an hour. "

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" Guns and violence have no corresponding relationship that justifies gun control. "

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" History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. "

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" How can people trust the government when they can't even come out with a consistent answer on crime rates or even what constitutes a crime? "

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" I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. "

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" 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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" I don't think either candidate is going to like it. I'm going to give presidents a bad name. "

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" I got the idea that you were supposed to be plenty morbid and predict the end of civilization many times, but civilization has ended so many times during my brief term on earth that I got a little bored with the theme. "

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