More From Howard Nemerov
- "The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn’t give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
- "The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose."― Shelby Foote
- "Poetry and prayer are very similar."― Carol Ann Duffy
- "I don’t think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can’t teach them is the very essence of poetry."― Robert Morgan