I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>