“Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”

“He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.”

“Railing in other men may be a crime,
But ought to pass for mere instinct in him:
Instinct he follows and no further knows,
For to write verse with him is to transpose.”

“The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.”

“This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.”

“Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which?”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

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

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

“To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise.”