#k

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 Nemerov

#because #i #last #line #much

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#fact #first #generalities #great #in fact

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

#always #fake #first #frost #had

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#discern #facts #historian #make #nothing

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. ↗

— Paul Newman

#game #look #playing #poker #sucker

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#barely #england #frost #i #known

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

— Howard Nemerov

#different #occur #somebody #think #write

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#father #feeling #heart #his #joy

I think things happened the way they did for a reason. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#happened #i #i think #reason #things

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#defining #estate #intellectual #intellectual property #kind