And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>