Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>