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A chronicle is very different from history proper (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it’s as close as I come to telling how I do it (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Robert Frost had always said you mustn’t think of the last line first, or it’s only a fake poem, not a real one. I’m inclined to agree (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
We’re not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T. S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control. (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know. (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Children, to be illustrious is sad (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
I have a plot, but not much happens (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
A teacher is a person who never says anything once (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
A lot happens by accident in poetry (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he’s nothing if he doesn’t make out a case (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
When you write it doesn’t occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
The spirit world doesn’t admit to communicating with me, so it’s fairly even (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice (Howard Nemerov Quotes)
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