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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

#Travel #Science #Journey
“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Teacher #Retirement #Say Anything
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Writing #Should
“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Accidents
“The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Writing #Dying #Way
“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Jobs #Wife #Secret
“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.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Book #Firsts #Imagine
“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.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Kids #Trying #Doing Me
“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

#Our World #Way #Impossible
“I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Clear #Verses
“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Different #Chronicles
“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Poetry #Sometimes
“Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Time #Children #War
“When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Summer #Air #August
“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.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Beautiful #Moving #Years
“Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#War #Science #Religion
“Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Science #Silence #Shining
“When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Writing #Thinking #Different
“The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Literature #World #Spirit
“Children, to be illustrious is sad.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Children
“Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Kings #Power #President
“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.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Poetic #Verses
“Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Long #Over You #Stories
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Responsibility #Government #Promise
“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Students #Lord
“I have a plot, but not much happens.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Plot
“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

#Literature #Narrative #Argument
“I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Art #Writing #Thinking
“When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Stories #Literature #Modern
“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.”
-- Howard Nemerov

#Fake People #Real #Thinking

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