I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
During our first date,I wanted to hold your hand so badI almost cut mine offand threw it at youto see if you would catch it Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.'Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Listen. Outside this frame I can see light,heavy as pardon, reliable as granite.Help me. Help me drag it into the picture. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>