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What did poet robert frost say about writing free verse?


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Robert Frost once wrote, "For my pleasure I had soon as write free verse as play tennis with the net down."  (The Robert Frost Reader, p. 462 )

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Robert Frost has been attributed with sayng... "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

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