Home / Quotes / Quote by Howard Nemerov

Quote by Howard Nemerov

“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”

Quote by Howard Nemerov

Author

Howard Nemerov was an American poet known for his unique style and profound insight into American culture. His poetry, characterized by humor, satire, and deep emotion, had a significant impact on American poetry. more

You May Also Like

“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”

Different Literature Chronicles

Author:Howard Nemerov

“I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.”

Knows Clear Verses Free Verse

Author:Howard Nemerov

“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.”

World Way Literature Deals Impossible Illusion Our World Marvelous Generalities

Author:Howard Nemerov

“I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.”

Trying Kids Found Literature Term Modern Mines Poet Paper Handle Doing Me Term Paper

Author:Howard Nemerov

“I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.”

Firsts Book Form Imagine Abandoned Imagine That Verses Free Verse

Author:Howard Nemerov

“The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.”

Way Writing Subjects Dying

Author:Howard Nemerov

“Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.”

Men Design Difficulty Infinite Remains Secure Accomplished

Book:Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

Source: Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”

Want Persons Dies Wanting To Die

Author:Jo Nesbo

“All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.”

Interesting Hero Heels Achilles Achilles Heel

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.”

Thinking Knows Way Lying Sleep Creatures Intuition Hey Now And Then New Things Subconscious Blink Absorbing Dormant You Think You Know Snoring

Author:Jo Nesbo