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  • Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. -- Delia Sherman
  • Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. -- Eugenio Montale
  • 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
  • It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. -- David Whyte
  • 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
  • In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings. -- Billy Collins
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
  • 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
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