The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“And stay, my dear stay... forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“There is a moon, that rests in the quiet corners of a lover’s lips.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to… — Akiko Busch Copy Share Image
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I scratch down happiness, I want my ink to do happy dances, to careen across the pages staggering like a drunken fellow,… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“His relentless lust Failed to accept the demands of love, He got back his senses And responded to her But, just too… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“A midst deceit I found the truth; there in the rough I found a diamond. And from the moment we met, I… — Donato DiCristino Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds. There will still come water, chill wind… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Dead Butterfly By Ellen Bass For months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse,"… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to… — Keneth Warren Copy Share Image
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
