Free Verse Quotes

19 quotes by 14 authors

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. — George Carlin
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
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov
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
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better. — L. Ron Hubbard
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
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. — Dorothy Allison
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
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
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
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
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. — John Crowe Ransom
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

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