I find free verse very, very difficult to write. - John Hollander

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I find free verse very, very difficult to write.

John Hollander

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About John Hollander

John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.

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Poetic form, as we know it, is an abstraction from, or residue of musical form.... The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes...all poetry was originally oral.

Metre is to rhythm as eye is to ear.

I revise very little. I always write in long hand and revise when I type. I test them out when I read them aloud.