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“I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.”

Book Humorous Dollars Twelve Verses Free Verse

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“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.”

Way Writing Bigs Form Deals Modern Poet Conventional Verses Strict Big Deal Free Verse

Author:Andrew Motion

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

Form Verses Liberating Binding Free Verse

Book:Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected

Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected

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

Knows Clear Verses Free Verse

Author:Howard Nemerov

“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.”

Firsts Book Form Imagine Abandoned Imagine That Verses Free Verse

Author:Howard Nemerov

“My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.”

My Own Verses Free Verse

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.”

Art Names Quality Difficulty Extremes Characteristics Verses Obscurity Modernism Free Verse

Author:James Fenton

“The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where "open form" or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term "heightened speech".”

Today Form Voice Term Memories Speech Raised Verses Orthodoxy Modernism Aftermath Free Verse

Author:James Fenton

“Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.”

Might Form Common Democratic Access Verses Cattle Accusation Common Ground Elitism Landlord Free Verse

Author:James Fenton

“Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.”

Two Walking Legs Teenager Verses Free Verse

Book:Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Source: Conversations with Dorothy Allison