Nemerov Poems Quotes & Sayings

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song! — Ann Reed

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. — Lance Armstrong

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. — Howard Nemerov

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. — Howard Nemerov

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man. — Wilhelm Reich

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully. — Jens Lekman

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on. — John Steinbeck

I 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 Nemerov

He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him. — W. Somerset Maugham

Check your lipstick before you come and talk to me. — Naomi Campbell

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. — Winston Churchill

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. — Ethel Waters

I will piss on deadlines. I will forget I am married. I will do nothing but read, read, read when it's a Book Affair. — Lainey