Howard Nemerov Quotes

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

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

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

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

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.

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.