Libre Quotes

• No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

  Ezra Pound

  Jobs, Truth, Men

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.362, New Directions Publishing

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• I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Jesus, Color, Two

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• To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

  Amy Lowell

  Intelligent, Feet, Desire

  "Dial", January 1917.

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• Empecé a escribir lo que yo llamaba "ritmos", es decir, piezas sin rima, sin esquema métrico formal, en las que el ritmo lo creaba una especie de canto interior... Más tarde me dijeron que escribía "verso libre".

  Richard Aldington

  Writing, Pieces, Kind

  "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.

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• Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Moving, Sea

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• L'homme est condamne   a'   e"  tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hombres

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• Long live free France.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Francia

  Pierre Trudeau's comment referring to the 1968 student protests in Paris, as quoted in "The Lima News", December 11, 1968.

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• Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Dark, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Three Men and a Maid: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

  Richard Stallman

  Movement, Software, Users

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

  Amy Dumas

  Wrestling, Rocks, Punk

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