Nemerov

Famous quotes containing the word 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 (1920–1991)

    I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
    —Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)

    The ordinary night was graced
    For them by the swift tide of blood
    That silently they took at flood,
    And for a little time they prized
    Themselves emparadised.
    —Howard Nemerov (b. 1920)