The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>