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Howard Nemerov Quotes


An American poet, twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990.
Howard Nemerov (29 February 1920 – 5 July 1991) was an American poet, twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Yale University.

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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