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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…
- At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length…
- A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. — Russell Baker
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire
- The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of… — Tony Campolo
- The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. — Paul Cezanne
- Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best… — Nicolas Chamfort
- Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman
- I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — Leonard Cohen
- A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes… — Deepak Chopra
- Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. — Jon Bon Jovi
- Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would… — Charles Spurgeon
- The mad is either insane or he is composing verses. — Horace