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I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
— Howard Nemerov
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
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
— Howard Nemerov
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
— Howard Nemerov
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
— Howard Nemerov
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
— Howard Nemerov
History is where tensions were.
— Howard Nemerov
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
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
— Howard Nemerov
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.
— Howard Nemerov
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
— Howard Nemerov
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
— Howard Nemerov
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[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).
— Howard Nemerov
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
— Howard Nemerov
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
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
— Howard Nemerov
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
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
— Howard Nemerov
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
— Howard Nemerov
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
— Howard Nemerov
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
— Howard Nemerov
I have a plot, but not much happens.
— Howard Nemerov
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
— Howard Nemerov
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
— Howard Nemerov
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
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
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
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
— Howard Nemerov
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
Children, to be illustrious is sad.
— Howard Nemerov
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
— Howard Nemerov
