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The Poet and the Copywriter
Nemerov, Howard | November 10, 1956 issue

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This article presents information on a conversation between a poet and a copywriter. The copywriter says, "I can see you'd enjoy writing ads once you began. And I'd like to write poems, too, if only they had something definite to sell in them, instead of just truth and beauty, beauty and truth. But you can't sell beauty and truth, either because they're free and everyone has all he needs of them, or because no one can afford them any more at all. With soap, gas and brassieres, you know where you are. It concentrates the language."

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POETS; COPY writers; CONVERSATION; ARTISTS; POETRY; TRUTH
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