Howard Nemerov Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.”

“The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.”

“We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.”

“When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.”

“I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.”

“Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.”

“The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.”