#free verse

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. ↗

— John Barrymore

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ↗

— Robert Frost

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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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. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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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

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Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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