Howard Nemerov Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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Howard Nemerov quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 37 we have.

Howard Nemerov Quotes
“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
Howard Nemerov Quotes
“I have a plot, but not much happens.”
Howard Nemerov Quotes
“I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.”
Howard Nemerov Quotes
“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”
Howard Nemerov Quotes
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
Howard Nemerov Quotes
“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 Quotes
“When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.”
Howard Nemerov Quotes
“History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.”
“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 Quotes
“I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.”

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