Enjoy Quote by Allison Joseph

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either…

— Andrew Motion

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served…

— Denise Duhamel

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my…

— Conrad Aiken

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

— Jeffery Deaver

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a…

— Martin Langford

For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try…

— Matthew Zapruder

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker