I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
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Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.Howard Nemerov
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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I have a plot, but not much happens.
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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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When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
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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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