Howard Nemerov Time Quotations

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.