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Free Verse Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free..."
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 poetry is not memorable. Robert Morgan
John Barrymore quote: "I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it..."
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. John Barrymore
Robert Frost quote: "I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as..."
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. Robert Frost
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 free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. Andrew Motion
Robert Frost quote: "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Robert Frost
John C. Ransom quote: "Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. John C. Ransom
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov quote: "I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one..."
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. Howard Nemerov
Follow, poet, follow right. To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice. Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse. Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess. In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart. Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days. Teach the free man how to praise. W. H. Auden

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