all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment…

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That…

— Emilia Clarke

I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when…

— Vashti Bunyan

In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other…

— Donna J. Haraway

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant.…

— Skip Horack

Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those…

— Cherien Dabis

Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a…

— Zachary Schomburg

The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly…

— Claude Brown

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose…

— Brett Dennen

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

— Hank Azaria

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with…

— Joell Ortiz

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

— Michel Foucault

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or anything like…

— Girl Talk

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more…

— Josephine de La Baume