Juan Felipe Herrera famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.
-- Juan Felipe Herrera

#Flexible
Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.
-- Juan Felipe Herrera

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We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.
-- Juan Felipe Herrera

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A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.
Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.
With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.
Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

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