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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The cliche is dead poetry.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>