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.
Howard NemerovWhen Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Howard NemerovHistory is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Howard Nemerov