I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coheren… — Quoted

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“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 · Hope

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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.

Business

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.

Freedom

Howard Nemerov

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Poetry

Howard Nemerov

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

History