Famous quotes containing the words narrative of and/or narrative:
“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 (18171862)
“The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldnt imagine ourselves through a day without it.”
—Robert Coover (b. 1932)