Bleeding Quote by Deborah Smith

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not…

— Edwin Catmull

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore…

— Vern Rutsala

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or…

— Rebecca Solnit

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

— Thurston Moore

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when…

— Jeanette Winterson

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights…

— Jasper Fforde

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature of people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

— Diane Wakoski