More From 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."
- "A chronicle is very different from history proper."
- "I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
More In Teacher
- "Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."― Warren G. Bennis
- "Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."― Oscar Wilde
- "My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel."― Chinua Achebe