Break Quote by Robert Graves

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them,…

— Robert Graves

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

— Masiela Lusha

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin

“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually…

— William Strunk Jr

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain…

— Anonymous

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

“You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.”

— Stephen Fry