Howard Nemerov Quotes

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

- Howard Nemerov

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Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. - Howard Nemerov

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned. - Howard Nemerov

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. - Howard Nemerov