Free Verse Quotes
19 quotes by 14 authors
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
— John Barrymore
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I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
— George Carlin
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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 free…
— Andrew Motion
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The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
— Donald Hall
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I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
— Howard Nemerov
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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got…
— Howard Nemerov
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My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of…
— James Fenton
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
— Dorothy Allison
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as…
— James Fenton
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The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or…
— James Fenton
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry…
— Robert Morgan
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Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
— Felix Dennis
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Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
— John Crowe Ransom
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Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth. Tell me you…
— Azra T
Who Wrote These Free Verse Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 19 Free Verse Quotes as follows: