Quotes by Howard Nemerov

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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I have a plot, but not much happens.

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

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

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

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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

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A lot happens by accident in poetry.

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Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

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