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.

I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.