28 Quotes About Free-verse

..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.

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

From our solitudewe shall create,forge songs ,pour in the reflectionof the stars and refresh the mindabout the silk-ridden roads that wait for them who have forgotten to feel.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

There is a moon,that rests in the quiet cornersof a lover’s lips.

Though you left,How can I stillFeel your presence?You left but,Your memories andYour words are stuck with me.

in the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone’s deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone’s smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against.

And when the heat caramelized the clouds,The leaves turned as pages announcing a gilded age,And when the clouds heaved and molted, the Earth remembered what hope wasone more time;the fainted light stretched back to places distant and immemorable.It was again as pure as the promise made in gritty dirt and bedrock,Ages of industry and inequality buried once and for all,Like dark matter at the edge of a wild, blue sky.