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We may suspect that makers of jokes and smart remarks resemble poets at least in this, that they too would be excluded from Plato's Republic; for it is of the nature of Utopia and the Crystal Palace, ...
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "Bottom's Dream: The Likeness of Poems and Jokes," Reflexions on Poetry and Poetics, Rutgers ...
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''I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.''
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. International Herald Tribune (Paris, October 14, 1988).
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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 m...
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought of Music," Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Me...
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''Religion 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.''
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "On the Resemblances Between Science and Religion," Figures of Thought: Speculations on the M...
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''Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?''
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger," sct. C, Journal of the Fictive Life (1965).
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present—henc...
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger," sct. B, Journal of the Fictive Life (1965).
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''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.''
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger," sct. C, Journal of the Fictive Life (1965).
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''It was a wide and moony grin
Together peaceful and obscene;''
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Howard Nemerov (b. 1920), U.S. poet. The Goose Fish (l. 28-29). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, ed...
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''The ordinary night was graced
For them by the swift tide of blood
That silently they took at flood,
And for a little time they prized
Themselves emparadised.''
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Howard Nemerov (b. 1920), U.S. poet. The Goose Fish (l. 5-9). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds....
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Valery ... said that prose was walking, poetry dancing. Indeed, the original two terms, prosus and versus meant, respectively, "going straight forth" and "returning," and that distinction does point u...
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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "The Protean Encounter," Reflexions on Poetry and Poetics, Rutgers University Press (1972).
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A Spell before Winter
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After the red leaf and the gold have gone,
Brought down by the wind, then by hammering rain
Bruised and discolored, when October's flame
Goes blue to guttering in the cusp, this land
Sinks deeper into silence, darker into shade.
There is a knowledge in the look of things,
The old hills hunch before the north wind blows.
Now I can see certain simplicities
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