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Lines Quotes by Howard Nemerov
- Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster
- Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. — Diane Ackerman
- Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage
- The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in… — Michael Badnarik
- The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik
- I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
- I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean… — Amy Adams
- It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember… — Jim Bakker
- Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. — Alec Baldwin
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what… — James A. Baldwin
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale