A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>