All 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.
Howard Nemerov
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
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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.
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We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
Howard Nemerov
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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.
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The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov in
Science
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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.
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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.
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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
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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
Howard Nemerov in
Funny
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