Howard Nemerov Thinking Quotations

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

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.

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.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.