Art Quote by William Carlos Williams

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

— Howard Nemerov

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

— Donald Hall

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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

— John Barrymore

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin

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

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

“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a…

— Martin Langford

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes…

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Allison Joseph