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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)
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 (1920–1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger," sct. C, Journal of the Fictive Life (1965).
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