Quotes Howard Nemerov

A chronicle is very different from history proper....

A lot happens by accident in poetry....

A teacher is a person who never says anything once....

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serio...

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we...

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one...

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

I have a plot, but not much happens....

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones....

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper ...

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that mo...

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

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

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we d...

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier....

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anythin...

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tr...

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only...

Language cares....

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints...

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poe...

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, th...

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind fr...

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really...

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it....