I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Howard NemerovHistory 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.
Howard NemerovShakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
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 Nemerov