Quote #38

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

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  1. Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family - But not much in between, unless a college.
  2. No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard. Better to go down dignified With boughten friends…
  3. Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, 'grace' metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provi…
  4. The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.
  5. Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
  6. When I see young men doing so wonderfully well in athletics, I don't feel angry at them. I feel jealous of them. I wish that some of my boy…
  7. If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise, I'm not the one for putting off the proof. Let it be …
  8. The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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