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


Robert Frost

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down
ROBERT FROST
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost
JOHN GREEN
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
ROBERT FROST
Robert loves to play tennis and plans to play often at the tennis courts, and we both love to spend ...
HARRIET STEIN
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And the...
KEANU REEVES
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration...
SERENA WILLIAMS
We ran as if to meet the moon.
ROBERT FROST
Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we b...
NATALIE S. BOBER
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse ...
ROBERT MORGAN
I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.
BOB NEWHART
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentra...
SERENA WILLIAMS
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known ...
HOWARD NEMEROV
He has written some of the most memorable poems of our time, and his achievement rivals that of grea...
CHRISTIAN WIMAN
I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
PAUL MULDOON
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is diffe...
TOM HIDDLESTON
The timing couldn't have been worse, basically, ... I was playing the best tennis of my life. I was ...
ALICIA MOLIK
I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two character...
ALBERT FINNEY
Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W....
ROBERT FROST
Actually, it's not a cut-throat competition. It's more like stress-free tennis.
JAMES KEMP
I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two chara...
ALBERT FINNEY
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayva...
ROBERT FROST
To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if y...
AIMEE GARCIA
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
DON MARQUIS
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
DOROTHY ALLISON
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
JOHN BARRYMORE
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free
JOHN BARRYMORE
Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963

Here come real stars to fill th...
ROBERT FROST
...So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose some...
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When members of the London Poetry Society asked Browning to interpret a particularly difficult passa...
RALPH KEYES
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Playing aggressive tennis paid off,
SHINOBU ASAGOE
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
JOHN BARRYMORE
I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy wit...
ANASTASIA MYSKINA
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-...
MIKE WEIR
Kim is playing the best tennis right now coming into the U.S. Open.
TRACY AUSTIN
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in RACHEL CARSON I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to releas...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Aside from the physical sensation of hiking the Trail, it became a real intellectual adventure, too ...
IAN MARSHALL
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
BILL SIMMONS
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS
Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d...
G.K. CHESTERTON
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibi...
STEVEN PINKER
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdaine...
JAMES FENTON
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats i...
ANNE STEVENSON
There are not many Irish people playing tennis!
GORAN IVANISEVIC
Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them...
HAYLEY MILLS
Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this ...
KEVIN HEARNE
He's a good ball player. He's getting his timing down on defense as a free safety, and there should ...
KARL KIEFER
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild ...
VINCE MCMAHON
But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.
VICTORIA STEELE LOGUE
West Fargo attacked well at the net, but as a team our players didn't get rattled and played some ex...
LEE NAGEL
When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
BORIS SOKOLOFF
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
One of their girls played a serve and volley game that is very uncommon in the tennis world, yet ver...
ERIC BRIGHT
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
GRANT ACHATZ
We feel good about the win and know that even when we were losing, we were playing good tennis. We f...
DAN SILVERSTEIN
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because ...
NATALIE BABBITT
Have you ever
had so much to say
that your mouth closed up tight
struggling to harnes...
ELLEN HOPKINS
I think it was like playing somebody in tennis who's a little better than you. You get better just b...
AL COATES
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know...
HOWARD NEMEROV
It's hard not to be concerned about the way we're playing. I don't think we're playing our best tenn...
JODY BRONSON
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE
Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert L...
DONNY OSMOND
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake p...
HOWARD NEMEROV
This in one of the best matches of my life. I'm in my own world and playing great tennis. Having thi...
MARCOS BAGHDATIS
Friend who has fired the kingfishers
and flamed the dragonflies –
they catch your ligh...
BRYANA JOHNSON
Nothing whips my blood like verse.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm cluele...
RAFAEL NADAL
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formul...
EDGAR WINTER
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
BORIS BECKER
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
JOHN DARNIELLE
I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg play...
TOM HIDDLESTON
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and an...
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Man's free will to "choose" Christ is playing tug of war with God's sovereignty..
NORM TOMLINSON
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made wi...
LARS VON TRIER
It was obviously our first meet. We didn't play very good tennis and it showed. We really need to pr...
BASIL MIKE
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.
GEORGE HERBERT
Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing
DUKE ELLINGTON
He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and ma...
MIKE CAMMALLERI
As a result of a rising interest rate environment — which is a positive for a bank like Frost with ...
DICK EVANS
After high school this year, I'd like to go to Florida or maybe FSU. Maybe I can try out for the tea...
DEWALD STEINMAN
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'p...
KAREN TRAVISS
Jen is currently playing the best tennis I have seen her play. I believe she will compete for the Sh...
MAUDE BING
Consistent with existing BP practice, we remain committed to returning excess free cash flow, includ...
LORD BROWNE
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
TRACY AUSTIN
I've almost skated there every day and I've never seen people playing tennis.
BEN BROWN
When I was warming up and it was windy and cold, it was more like a job, not going out to have fun p...
JAMES BLAKE

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By Robert Frost 1874–1963

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definitio...
ROBERT FROST
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twent...
ROBERT FROST
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
ROBERT FROST
An idea is a feat of association.
ROBERT FROST
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
ROBERT FROST
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST
Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
ROBERT FROST
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the di...
ROBERT FROST
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before...
ROBERT FROST
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will tur...
ROBERT FROST
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
ROBERT FROST
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stoppin...
ROBERT FROST
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I ...
ROBERT FROST