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Howard Nemerov

"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."

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"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."

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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

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"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

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"Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?"

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"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."

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"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."

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"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

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"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself."

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"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."

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"But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation."

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Howard Nemerov
"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."

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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."

History

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Howard Nemerov
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."

Poetry

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Howard Nemerov
"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."

Art

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Howard Nemerov
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."

Literature

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Howard Nemerov
"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."

Technology

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Howard Nemerov
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."

Time

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Howard Nemerov
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."

Work

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Howard Nemerov
"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."

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"A chronicle is very different from history proper."

History

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