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I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry Picture Quote #1

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks Picture Quote #1

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know Picture Quote #1

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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Free verse’? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch ‘free architecture’ Picture Quote #1

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.’ Picture Quote #1

Well, it’s a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. 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 Picture Quote #1

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better Picture Quote #1

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down Picture Quote #1

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history Picture Quote #1

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars Picture Quote #1

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down Picture Quote #1

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs Picture Quote #1

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau Picture Quote #1

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I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness Picture Quote #1

I’ve given offense by saying I’d as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down Picture Quote #1

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry. (Free Verse Quotes) Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks (Free Verse Quotes) Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. (Free Verse Quotes) 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. (Free Verse Quotes) 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. (Free Verse Quotes) I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know. (Free Verse Quotes) The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. (Free Verse Quotes) 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 (Free Verse Quotes) Free verse’? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch ‘free architecture’ (Free Verse Quotes) 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.’ (Free Verse Quotes) Well, it’s a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. 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 (Free Verse Quotes) My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better (Free Verse Quotes) I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down (Free Verse Quotes) Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history (Free Verse Quotes) I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars (Free Verse Quotes) Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down (Free Verse Quotes) Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs (Free Verse Quotes) The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau (Free Verse Quotes) I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free (Free Verse Quotes) 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 (Free Verse Quotes) Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness (Free Verse Quotes) I’ve given offense by saying I’d as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down (Free Verse Quotes) Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance (Free Verse Quotes) 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 (Free Verse Quotes) I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know (Free Verse Quotes) 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 (Free Verse Quotes) 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 (Free Verse Quotes)