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
summer august air
When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
jobs wife secret
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
happens accidents
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
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.
students lord knows
[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).
teacher retirement say-anything
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
icy alive literature
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
travel science journey
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.