Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it.… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“Never say savor when you only mean taste – one is a holding on the tongue and an intoxication and the other… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have… — Martin Langford Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
