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.
Howard NemerovMostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Howard NemerovI 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.
Howard Nemerov