John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) American academic
Nation (February 1916)
“Every man's Free verse is different”
Form in Free Verse ,New Republic March 1916
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“But the form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.”
Donald Hall (1928–2018) American writer
From his essay 'Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird' in the book of the same title. 1978. ISBN 0-472-40000-2.
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
I.i.2
Epistulae ad Caesarem senem
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
Appius Claudius Caecus Roman politician
Sallust, Epistulae ad Caesarem senem, I.1.2
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Address at Milton Academy, Massachusetts (17 May 1935)
1930s
Variant: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
“I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Books, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
“I find free verse very, very difficult to write.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
The Music of Poetry (24 February 1942) the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
As quoted in Free Verse. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 2nd ed (1975)
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“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Suzy Platt