Howard Nemerov
Quotations
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“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” -Howard Nemerov
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“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.” -Howard Nemerov
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“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.” -Howard Nemerov
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“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” -Howard Nemerov
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“I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.” -Howard Nemerov
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“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
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“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
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“I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.” -Howard Nemerov
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“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 story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.” -Howard Nemerov
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“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
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