Vernon Howard

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. Vernon HowardYou have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. Vernon HowardYou must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last. Vernon Howard

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Frank Howard Clark

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank Howard Clark

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.
Frank Howard Clark

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank Howard Clark

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank Howard Clark

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Frank Howard Clark

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank Howard Clark

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank Howard Clark

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank Howard Clark

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank Howard Clark

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
Frank Howard Clark

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
Frank Howard Clark

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank Howard Clark

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank Howard Clark

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank Howard Clark

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
Frank Howard Clark

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
Frank Howard Clark

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank Howard Clark

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank Howard Clark

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Howard Nemerov

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A chronicle is very different from history proper.
Howard Nemerov

A lot happens by accident in poetry.
Howard Nemerov

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Howard Nemerov

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

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

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Howard Nemerov

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Howard Nemerov

I have a plot, but not much happens.
Howard Nemerov

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
Howard Nemerov

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

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Howard Nemerov

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

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
Howard Nemerov

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Howard Nemerov

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
Howard Nemerov

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

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

Language cares.
Howard Nemerov

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
Howard Nemerov

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