poetry

poetry

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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