Howard Nemerov Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Howard Nemerov quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”
“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.”
“I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.”
“Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.”
“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.”
“Language cares.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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