Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
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Related The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up m... JEANETTE WINTERSON My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrat... LYDIA DAVIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a... ALFONSO CUARON If you can build a narrative around a series of seemingly related events, it becomes more compelling... STEVEN SCHIER I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, a... SHEPARD SMITH I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voi... HELEN VENDLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the groun... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually b... MARGARET ATWOOD Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we... DAVID OYELOWO Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...an... TERRI WINDLING I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense... DAVID O. RUSSELL Character interests me more than narrative. I make the narrative up as I go, which is more fun anywa... MAC WELLMAN When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of i... BILLY COLLINS I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' st... SHEPARD SMITH Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of pur... ANDREA RISEBOROUGH We've all had some good outings and some highs in the short season so far. Now it's just a matter of... DAVE ESQUER Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. I... GARY HUME First and foremost, the most profound weapon a nation or special interest can possess is “control�... JAMES SCOTT The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a long... JOHN BURNSIDE I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Multimedia is its own entity. It takes the best out of documentary radio and the best out of documen... JEN FRIEDBERG I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short no... LANGSTON HUGHES The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe... EDWARD HIRSCH If you look at the statistics of who is in the market now, more than 50 percent of all American hous... BILL MANN Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, an... KENNETH R. MILLER My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easi... TOMMY LEE JONES When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't writ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all ... VITALIK BUTERIN We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Anim... NED VIZZINI I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art his... GEORGE HICKENLOOPER Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there. MURRAY I. MESZAROS Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or fli... STEWART BUTTERFIELD Soccer is more than a national sport. It's a national narrative. BEPPE SEVERGNINI I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli... LISA KLEYPAS It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many sto... ANNIE DILLARD About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the ma... JEREMY STOPPELMAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos... NICK HORNBY Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened... UMBERTO ECO You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Stars are important," I say, laughing. "Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The s... NICOLA YOON We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so month... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fab... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disord... PAUL RICOEUR I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write... JEFF KINNEY Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other p... A. R. AMMONS The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in st... ROBERT PINSKY The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. MATA HARI The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world. MATA HARI The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word MATA HARI On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, some
are in the middle, still mo... ROBERT SCHULLER The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. EDWARD NORTON I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ... IRA GLASS Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative sto... BARRY RITHOLTZ It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in you... GABY HOFFMANN Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my... IMOGEN HEAP In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in ... WILLIAM FALCONER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns... JOHN GEDDES Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather tha... DAVID MACKENZIE The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost stat... KEN LIU Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou... GEORGE ELIOT A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are p... FABRIZIO MOREIRA Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Ol... MICHAEL HORTON Some people go through treatment more than once and some never respond to treatment. But most people... DAN DUNCAN I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I h... STEVE ERICKSON We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more an... DAVID KEENE Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ... BARRY HANNAH You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend as... LYDIA DAVIS I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation... BILL CALLAHAN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma ... JESSICA STERN In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at ... PETER PORTER I wish there were more available. In today's economy we need all kinds of help, especially for peopl... DON COLE we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizes som... SANOBER KHAN Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't.. Just a trick of the woods! Just ... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment. AMIT RAY Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each cond... THOMAS SZASZ There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most ... KERRY GREENWOOD The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they ar... JOHN MACKEY Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narra... GRAYDON CARTER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON
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