Computers Quote by Elaine Equi Download Open image “In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.” — Elaine Equi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Function Language Machines Needs Poetry
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it could even… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Literary Lipsticks by Elaine Equi The Best American Poetry Red Wheelbarrow I Have Eaten the Plums Poppies in October Pink Christmas Red Weather A… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard,… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
