Access Quote by James Fenton

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I…

— Howard Nemerov

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

— William Carlos Williams

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I…

— Eugenio Montale

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

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…

— Andrew Motion

I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.

— Inio Asano

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

— Albert Einstein

The freedom of poetic license.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poetry is a break for freedom.

— David Whyte

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written,…

— Anonymous