When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
Howard NemerovI liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
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 NemerovTill I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.
Howard Nemerov