Howard NemerovI would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
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Although I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier, it is not. However, as a poet, that’s one of my strengths. When I was young, I loved poetry and would try to write it all the time, but compared to those two great poets I know – William Shakespeare and John Milton – I cannot match their skill. But I still try, and because of the iambic pentameter, I have a special way of expressing myself.
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