Richard Howard
Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howardis an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches. He lives in New York City...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 October 1929
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bad felt three
She was there every day, sometimes three times a day. I felt bad for her.
actress area costumes designing worked
She was not only an actress but worked in every area of theatre, designing costumes and set pieces.
children enforce takes
What I want to enforce on these children is what it takes to get this job, which is education.
days
Yeah, but I'm 81. How many more days have I got? Three?
call stick wiggle
I call it wiggle wiggle. We're going to stick with the waltz.
sexy taken mirrors
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.
reverse propose prose
Prose proposes, verse reverses.
teacher giving needs
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.