“I don't give a damn about Hollywood.” GivingHollywoodDamnDon't Give A DamnI Don't Give A Damn Author:Emmanuelle Beart
“I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.” YearsLastsBeautifulLinesHypnosis Author:Howard Nemerov
“Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?” MindFirstsEnoughFactsPurposeProtectObviousGeneralitiesGreat Outdoors Book:Journal of the Fictive Life Source: Journal of the Fictive Life
“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.” IfsFactsCasesResponsibleHistorianMake Out Author:Howard Nemerov
“When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.” WritingLiteratureInfluenceStartingButlersEliotYeatsGreat InfluenceStarting To Write Author:Howard Nemerov
“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.” LiteratureKnownAlivePoetEnglandFrostNew EnglandIcy Author:Howard Nemerov
“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.” LiteratureClassNovelMiddleSeriousMiddle ClassApplicationPuritanRetailRetail Business Book:Journal of the Fictive Life Source: Journal of the Fictive Life
“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.” ThinkingShouldLooksLiteratureRevolutionInnovationTricksPoundsCornyEliot Author:Howard Nemerov