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.
thinking innovation literature
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
literature rhyming rhyme
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
class literature serious
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
literature narrative argument
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
literature telling-stories modern
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
literature may pages
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
political literature want
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
literature world spirit
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
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.
butler great william
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
love teach time
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
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.
america population minorities
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.