Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerovwas an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 February 1920
CountryUnited States of America
writing literature yeats
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
art writing thinking
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
funny life writing
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
writing thinking different
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
writing dying way
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.
writing should knows
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
writing paper firsts
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
love teach time
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
butler great william
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
becomes cannot death escape examine except present subject unable
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
long over-you stories
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
kings power president
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.
beautiful moving years
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
poetic verses
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.