A chronicle is very different from history proper.
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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.Howard Nemerov
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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That dream got him such hatred of his brothers
As cost the greater part of life to mend,
And yet great kindness came of it in the end.
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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 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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The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
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