Best Howard Nemerov Quotes
- I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones. All
- 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
- Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? Fact
- Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. Awhile
- 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
- When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. Butler
- When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. Alive
- 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… All
- 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… Associated
- The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole… Bible
- [T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students). Been
- 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… Absolute
- Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died,… Accident
- Language cares. Cares
- The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even. Admit
- We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day. All
- When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. From