Quotes on Free Verse

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".

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

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.