Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>