I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
Howard NemerovWhen I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
Howard NemerovI do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Howard NemerovWhen you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
Howard Nemerov