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"The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even."
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"Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards."
"Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit."
"The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!"
"Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope."
"The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive."
Explore more quotes by Howard Nemerov
"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."
"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."
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
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