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- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — James Fenton
- The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton