One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>