poetry

poetry

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity...

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity...

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Stars are shining, my dreams too

Stars are shining, my dreams too

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Fragmentary BlueWhy make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--Though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

Fragmentary BlueWhy make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--Though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires.

But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The faster you go, the idler you get.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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