In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>