Couplets Quote by Sherman Alexie

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

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

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

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

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 do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually…

— Allison Joseph

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

— Allison Joseph

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as…

— Robert Scholes