Author: Howard Nemerov

Quotes

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

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

- Howard Nemerov

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

- Howard Nemerov

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

- Howard Nemerov

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

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

- Howard Nemerov

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

- Howard Nemerov

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

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

- Howard Nemerov

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

- Howard Nemerov

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

- Howard Nemerov

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

- Howard Nemerov

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