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Free Quotes
Freedom means something different to everyone.
These free quotes cover more ground than the single word suggests, from the simple pleasure of free time spent reading to the physics of breaking free from gravity's chains. Browse our dedicated Free Time page for more on that specific angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
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Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
- Gift
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I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.
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Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
- Common Ground
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.
- Nov 07, 2020
The disciplined are free.
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- Nov 07, 2020