poetry

poetry

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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