Phrase by 'Howard Nemerov'

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

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Children , Like , Ugly , Squat

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.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
You , Me , Doing , Try

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.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Never , Book , Freedom , Free

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Sometimes , Poetry , Talk , Within

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.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Look , Poetry , History , Nature

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Think , Art , Write , Us

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Talk , Were , Funny , Easier

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.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Work , Beautiful , Thought , Some

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet
Like , Poetry , Way , Said

Language cares.

Author: Howard Nemerov - American Poet