Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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A book makes claims of literary art.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
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.
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
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