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Freedom has never been free.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.