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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. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

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.

Peace

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. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

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

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

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

American Poet Travel

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 - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

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 - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.

Death

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? - Howard Nemerov Quotes

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

American Poet Mind

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

American Poet Poetry

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

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

American Poet Secrets

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

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. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

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.

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 -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned. - Howard Nemerov Quotes

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 -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned.

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