Free verse Quote by L. Ron Hubbard Download Open image “My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.” — L. Ron Hubbard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Free verse Freedom Funny Inspirational Love My own Poetry Verses
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis 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
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
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years, and I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“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
