Quotes By Howard Nemerov

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

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.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.