Howard Nemerov

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of…

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is…

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier…

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

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there’s always a coherent…

A teacher is a person who never says anything once…

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s…

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told…

I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely…

A chronicle is very different from history proper…

A lot happens by accident in poetry…

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but…

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be…

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn’t give you too many facts. Two…