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Howard Nemerov Quotes

American - Poet | February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Time Long You Long Time Same Over

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Facts Nothing Responsible Out He

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.

Freedom Great Bible Story Facts You

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Me World Admit Spirit Even Fairly

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

Love Time Day Literature You Teach

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Great Influence Write Starting After

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Up Modern Greatest Telling Stories

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Alive New Frost Poet New England

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

Think You Write Different Somebody

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Time Free You Know Write Leave

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Poetry Political Things Happen Never

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Work Great Purpose Mind Outdoors

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