More From Howard Nemerov
- "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."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened."― Madame de Stael
- "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."― Thomas Carlyle
- "“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know."― Andre Gide