Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>