A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Author: Howard Nemerov
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light they say forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light they say forgetful of the shadow's speed.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen but rarely what the poet wants.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen but rarely what the poet wants.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
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.
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.