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Quotation by Howard Nemerov
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"Bottom's Dream: The Likeness of Poems and Jokes" Reflexions on Poetry and Poetics, Rutgers University Press (1972)International Herald Tribune (Paris, October 14, 1988)"On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought of Music" Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays, Godine (1978)"On the Resemblances Between Science and Religion" Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays, Godine (1978)"Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger" Journal of the Fictive Life (1965)
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.
Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought of Music," Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays, Godine (1978).
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