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Danh ngôn của Howard Nemerov (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
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.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Language cares.
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.