Howard Nemerov Quote

The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind's eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like the square root of Everest Or how many times Byron goes into Texas, Or whether the law of the excluded middle Applies west of the Rockies.


To David, about His Education (1977)


The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind's eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like...

The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind's eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like...

The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind's eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like...

The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind's eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like...