Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

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• Howard Nemerov:

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

• Howard Nemerov:

  Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, no

• Howard Nemerov:

  Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before

• Howard Nemerov:

  The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's no

• Howard Nemerov:

  The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it te

• Dinah Shore:

  I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

• Dinah Shore:

  When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers

• Dinah Shore:

  Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a spe

• Dinah Shore:

  When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that

• Dinah Shore:

  In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, an