Quotes by Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Knows

Lord

Students

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Chronicles

Different

Literature

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Accidents

Happens

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Retirement

Say Anything

Teacher

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Government

Promise

Responsibility

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.

Science

Shining

Silence

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

Children

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Class

Literature

Serious

History 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.

Literature

Our World

Way

History is where tensions were.

Tension

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Air

Alive

America

Argument

Art

August

Beautiful

Book

Cases

Character

Children

Chronicles

Class

Clear

Different

Dying

Facts

Fake People

Fidgeting

Firsts

Funny

Gadgets

Giving

Government

Happens

Hypnosis

Icy

Imagine

Innovation

Jobs

Journey

Kids

Kings

Knows

Language

Life

Literature

Logic

Long

Lord

Majority

May

Mean

Mind

Modern

Moving

My Children

Narrative

Nice

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Quotes by Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

History 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.

History is where tensions were.

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