John Hollander: Verse

John Hollander was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on verse.
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“Very few writers of verse can read their work to keep their listeners aware of the beauty of sense, that sense of beauty from the powerful, delicate ways in which sense is made by poetry.”

John Hollander

'Poetry' September 1995

Beauty , Way , Sense , Reading

“The study of rhetoric distiguishes between tropes, or figuresvof meaning such as metaphor and metonymy, and schemes, or surface patterns of words. Poetry is a matter of trope; and verse, of scheme or design.”

John Hollander
Study

“Central also to reading verse aloud is the handling of enjambment,.. the interplay of line-end and sentence-flow.”

John Hollander
Reading

“I find free verse very, very difficult to write.”

John Hollander

“The blueprints of verse can be used to build things made of literal, or nonpoetic material, which is why most verse is not poetry.”

John Hollander

“You can teach the writing of verse.. like prose.. an instrument.. and the recognition of true poetry. The rest, writers must teach them selves.”

John Hollander

Interview with J D McCarthy 'The Art of Poetry' no 35 Fall 1985