Howard Nemerov Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”

“I have a plot, but not much happens.”

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

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

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

“I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.”

“When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.”

“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.”

“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.”