Free Verse Quotes
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Free Verse Quotes & Sayings
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
— John Barrymore
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
— Mike Nichols
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
— Howard Nemerov
Meditation makes us happier!
— Mia Randall
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
— G.K. Chesterton
You don't get older, you get better.
— Shirley Bassey
It will be your generation that will grow up in the glorious new era when people will be as easily graded as oranges.
— Kurt Vonnegut
In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.
— Akiko Busch
Poetry is a kind of money.
— Vanessa Place
"vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.
— G.K. Chesterton
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
— William Carlos Williams
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.
— L. Ron Hubbard
I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.
— Harrison Ford
[B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.
— Anthony Liccione
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
— Holly Schindler
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
— Dorothy Allison
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
— Amy Lowell
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
— Felix Dennis
I am a poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
— George Carlin
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
— Joyce Rachelle
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
— John Crowe Ransom