Quotes By Howard Nemerov

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.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Language cares.