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Howard Nemerov Quotes
A chronicle is very different from history proper. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
A lot happens by accident in poetry. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
A teacher is a person who never says anything once. - 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
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. Thats one of the things you learn not to know. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so theres always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I have a plot, but not much happens. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
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 Quotes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I think theres one thing which distinguishes our art - we dont consider. We dont think. We write a little verse because it comes to us. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Ive never read a political poem thats accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Ive thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldnt work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
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 Quotes
Language cares. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what its supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, its as close as I come to telling how I do it. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadows speed. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you wont know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
Robert Frost had always said you mustnt think of the last line first, or its only a fake poem, not a real one. Im inclined to agree. - 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
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but hes nothing if he doesnt make out a case. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesnt give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov Quotes
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Accident Anything Chronicle Different From Happens History
Never Once Person Poetry Proper Says Teacher
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