Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>