Narrative Poetry Quotes

#1. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#2. Hope and courage and risk dwell inside of us on an uncharted island and if we learn to look for it and tap into it, our possibilities are endless.

Katie Kacvinsky

#3. Have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind.

Susanna Clarke

#4. The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

Ron Silliman

#5. So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.

Sylvia Plath

#6. A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#7. Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

Bob Goff

#9. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.

F.K. Preston

#10. Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.

Dylan Thomas

#11. Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Walter Raleigh

#12. The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

Matthew Pearl

#13. Forgiveness isn't something given... It's something earned. What could I do to earn it, Aileana? Nothing. - Sorcha

Elizabeth May

#14. Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Sir Ronald Fisher

#15. Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Carol Ann Duffy

#16. The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

#17. I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

J. Cole

#18. Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

Eleanor Catton

#19. Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Ted Hughes

#20. Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight ... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

Stephanie Mills

#21. We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Gwenn Wright

#22. One who "knows," knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Osho

#23. I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.

Okky Madasari

#24. An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

William C. Brown

#25. I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine

Donald Hall

#26. We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

Michel Foucault

#27. Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

Delia Sherman

#29. Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

#30. I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

#31. Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Ron Rash

#32. Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

#33. There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#34. What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

David Dark

#35. I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#36. A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

Romulus Linney

#37. I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Diane Wakoski

#38. In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Juan Goytisolo