Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Howard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Richard Howard.
Last updated on September 20, 2024.
Richard Howard

Richard Joseph Howard was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he was an emeritus professor. He lived in New York City.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go. — © Richard Howard
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
Prose proposes, verse reverses.
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.
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