Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. 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>
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. 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>
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. 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>
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>