The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>