I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>