Verse Quotes

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

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

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.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

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

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.