Quote#Freedom
The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. A…
Quote byWallace Stevens · 1879–1955
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "A Note on Poetry" (1937); in William Rose Benét and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds., The Oxford Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2 (New York: Oxford UP, 1938), p. 1325.
English (original)
The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. A free form does not assure freedom. As a form, it is just one more form. So that it comes to this, I suppose, that I believe in freedom regardless of form.
— Wallace Stevens
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