Essence Quote by Delia Sherman Download Open image “Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.” — Delia Sherman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essence Narrative Poetry Storytelling
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way? — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“Anybody who can get through March without breaking a glass, a friendship, a secret, a promise, or somebody's nose is either a saint or… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“For me, creative energy is like an old-fashioned ground-water well. When the well is dry, it’s dry. I can dig all I like, and… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.” — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life; — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give it water… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
