Any Quote by Robert Pinsky

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas…

— Sherman Alexie

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

— Matthea Harvey

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

— Billy Collins

For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try…

— Matthew Zapruder

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to…

— Edward Hirsch

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I…

— Sharon Olds

For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that…

— Michael Longley

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

— Steve Earle

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry,…

— Shelby Foote

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

— Jamila Woods

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get…

— Italo Calvino