Howard Nemerov

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.