Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>