“When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.” ThinkingWritingDifferentLiteratureThink Different Author:Howard Nemerov
“We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.” ThinkingMindSexWander Author:Howard Nemerov
“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.” ThinkingWritingLittlesArtLiteratureOne ThingVerses Author:Howard Nemerov
“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.” ThinkingFirstsSaidRealLastsLiteratureLinesAgreeFakeFake PeopleFrostIcyReal Ones Author:Howard Nemerov
“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.” ThinkingShouldLooksLiteratureRevolutionInnovationTricksPoundsCornyEliot Author:Howard Nemerov