I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Howard NemerovMostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Howard NemerovI think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Howard Nemerov