Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>