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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.
-Howard Nemerov
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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.
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