Strict Form Quotes
- What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for… — Philip Pullman
- 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
- I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I… — Anne Stevenson
- A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation. — Michael Haneke
- You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but… — Madeleine L'Engle
- In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle