Quotes about Howard Nemerov

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of...

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Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close...

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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can...

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Language cares.

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

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I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out,...

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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely...

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I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't...

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

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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be...

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

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

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