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Howard Nemerov

Birthday: February 29, 1920
Deathday: July 05, 1991
Category: American Poet
Type: Poet
National: American

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

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