Free Quote by Felix Dennis

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've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

— John Barrymore

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

— William Carlos Williams

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

— Donald Hall

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

— Ellen Hopkins

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.

— George Carlin

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

— James Payn

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

— Quintilian

I drop longest verse more than the book of psalms…and every verse I drop in a track can kill lot of niggas albums…. ª…

— Glenshoun

I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not…

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.”

— Richard J. Foster