Free verse Quote by Dorothy Allison Download Open image “Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.” — Dorothy Allison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Free verse Legs Poetry Teenager Two Verses Walking Walking around Youth
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power. — James Franco Copy Share Image
“Before the 20th century, there was no such thing as “teenagers.” There were children and adults, and the goal of the former was to… — Joel Hilliker Copy Share Image
Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
“Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Simple answers, reductionist politics, are the most prone to compromise, to saying we’re addressing the essential issue and all that other stuff can slide.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I had to say to her that it isn’t just men, and it isn’t just men “like that.” I had to talk to her about the women I had found after I left home, women who breathed out hatred as steadily as the worst man we had ever known. I had to say that the world is a bigger, meaner,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Entitlement, I have told them, is a matter of feeling like we rather than they.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal. It is a belief that dominates this culture. It is what makes the poor… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to a bawd,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“A midst deceit I found the truth; there in the rough I found a diamond. And from the moment we met, I think of no one else Today I choose to be, to live and breathe; to dream, to weep, and to sing in free verse. And you, the object of my delight: a like-minded opposite I am myself with,… — Donato DiCristino Copy Share
“If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm brush your fingertips along the lifeline's crease. When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase too slowly through the airport, when the… — Ellen Bass Copy Share
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dead Butterfly By Ellen Bass For months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her backpack, to her only friend’s house. At the dinner table it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast. She took it to bed, propped by her pillow. Was it the year her brother was born?… — Ellen Bass Copy Share
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no defenses against.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
