Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>