One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>