I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Howard NemerovReligion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
Howard NemerovThe 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.
Howard NemerovIt 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