Libre Quotes

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)
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant.. Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. View quote
Richard Aldington
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. View quote
Daniel Alarcon
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. View quote
Ezra Pound
There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression.. until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case. View quote
T. E. Hulme
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. View quote
Amy Lowell
On the account (or for the reason that, or... from the fact that... "Du fait que", Fr.) that one person advocate and want something, it does not follow that others have to want it too; only the postulates of reason and certitude are identicals, invariables, and can always be of use to everyone as a fulcrum ("point d'appui", Fr.) with a view to a free agreement ("entente libre", Fr). View quote
African Spir
In fact, the Church never admitted free-will, or used the word when it could be avoided. In Latin, the term used was liberum arbitrium,- free choice,- and in French to this day it remains in strictness libre arbitre still. From Saint Augustine downwards the Church was never so unscientific as to admit of liberty beyond the faculty of choosing between paths, some leading through the Church and some not, but all leading to the next world. View quote
Henry Adams
The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre. View quote
F. S. Flint
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)
Soy boricua. In spite of my family and in spite of my country, I'm writing the process of the Puerto Rican mind- taking it out of context-as a native and a foreigner-expressing it through Spanish, Spanglish, and English-Independencia, Estado Libre Asociado, and Estadidad-from the position of a nation, a colony, and a state-Wishy, Wishy-Washy, and Washy. View quote
Giannina Braschi