I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>