Quotes by Howard Nemerov

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

It 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.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.