Flexible Quote by Juan Felipe Herrera Download Open image “A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.” — Juan Felipe Herrera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flexible Poetry
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
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
Yoga is not about having the perfect positions, it's not about who's the best and who's the most flexible. A lot of people are… — Jayne Middlemiss Copy Share Image
The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more… — John Morreall Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
I don't control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. — Craig Armstrong Copy Share Image
If an athlete like Michael Jordan played tennis, he would be the best - he's flexible, not too bulky, and has unbelievable hand-to-eye coordination. — Mats Wilander Copy Share Image
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape! — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image