I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – 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. – Howard Nemerov
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov
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. – Howard Nemerov