Top 37 Quotes by Howard Nemerov

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

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

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

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