For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>