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Howard Nemerov

American Poet

Born: Feb 29, 1920

Died: Jul 5, 1991

First Great History Think Time You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. Howard Nemerov

Funny Easier Would Talk Were

I have a plot, but not much happens. Howard Nemerov

Plot Happens Much

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones. Howard Nemerov

Ugly Like Squat Children Even

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. Howard Nemerov

Mathematics Language Extreme Logic About Constraints Only Except Remarkable Never Supposed Talk Around Always Spreading

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. Howard Nemerov

You Thought Once Rhyme Awhile

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. Howard Nemerov

You First Think Poem Only Had Robert Robert Frost Said Always Fake Real Line Frost Agree Inclined Last

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

Me World Admit Spirit Spirit World Fairly Communicating Even

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day. Howard Nemerov

Love Time Day You Every Day Every Literature Teach

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

Great William Write Yeats Influence After Butler Starting

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. Howard Nemerov

You Somebody Think Could Write Occur Different

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

Time You Free Write Free Time Know Leave Lot Should

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. Howard Nemerov

Work Class Business Puritan Retail Over Practically Middle Middle Class Again Novel Serious Why Conscientious Application Jewish

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