Howard Nemerov's Quotes

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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful...

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and...

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of...

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent...

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Language cares.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light they say forgetful...

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes...

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent...

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and...

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal...

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an...

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could...

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class the novel is serious the novel is...

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