Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. Jul 07, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Jul 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>