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 Read Quote
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know. Howard Nemerov Read Quote
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. Howard Nemerov Read Quote