source: "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.
topic: Writing, Mean, Exercise, Days Of The Year, Free Verse
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
topic: Writing, Poetry, Tennis, Writing Poetry, Free Verse
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
source: Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.362, New Directions Publishing
topic: Jobs, Truth, Men, Libre, Free Verse
topic: Memorable, Problem, Poetry Is, Free Verse
topic: Dirty, Writing, Islands, Squalor, Unmade Beds
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
topic: Form, Verses, Liberating, Free Verse, Binding
source: Interview with Carolyn Perry and Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
topic: Feelings, Language, Rich, Concise, Free Verse
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
topic: Sleep, May, Architecture, Free Verse
source: Source: therumpus.net
topic: Way, Heard, Feels, Free Verse
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.
source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
topic: Links, Lines, Break, Free Verse
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
source: George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
topic: Humorous, Book, Twelve, Free Verse
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
source: In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203
topic: Writing, Play, Poetry, Free Verse
topic: Discipline, Feelings, Progress, Free Verse, Implied
source: "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
topic: Might, Common, Accusation, Free Verse, Elitism
source: "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
topic: Art, Names, Quality, Free Verse
source: "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.
topic: Writing, Way, Modern, Free Verse, Conventional
source: Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.76, Univ. Press of Mississippi
topic: Writing, Stories, Patterns, Free Verse
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
topic: Clear, Verses, Free Verse
topic: Memories, Voice, Speech, Free Verse
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
topic: Free Love, Contradiction, Term, Free Verse
source: Source: blog.pshares.org
topic: Swings, Way, Speak, Free Verse
source: "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.
topic: Crazy, School, People, Free Verse, School Experience
topic: Regret, Believe, Reading, Modern Poetry, English Poetry
source: "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.
topic: Writing, Pieces, Kind, Libre, Free Verse
topic: Use, Cadence, Kind, Assonance, Alliteration
topic: Book, Firsts, Imagine, Free Verse
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
topic: Wonder, Modern, Verses, Free Verse