"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 Nemerov
About this Quote
Howard Nemerov is expressing his contract with Robert Frost's opinion on the significance of composing verse. Frost believed that if a poet begins with the last line of a poem, it is not an authentic rhyme, however a fake one. Nemerov is in arrangement with this suggestion, recommending that the last line must not be the very first thing a poet thinks of when composing a rhyme. This is since the last line needs to be the culmination of the poem, as well as should be the outcome of the poet's creative procedure. By starting with the last line, the poem is not real, as it has actually not been produced in an all-natural and also organic method. Nemerov's agreement with Frost's point of view recommends that he values the creative procedure of writing poetry, and also thinks that it needs to be appreciated.
This quote is written / told by Howard Nemerov between February 29, 1920 and July 5, 1991. He/she was a famous Poet from USA.
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