poetry

poetry

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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