Howard Nemerov Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Howard Nemerov quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 37 we have.
“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.”
“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”
“When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.”
“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”
“I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.”
“Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.”
“Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?”
“Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.”
“I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.”
“Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.”
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