I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the…

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense…

— Seamus Heaney

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general…is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning.…

— Leonard Cohen

“He quickly reached for his lyric book and started writing. You sing to me through laughter. I see it dancing in your eyes. Pieces…

— Ann Lister

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement…

— Thurston Moore

“There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a…

— C.M. Kornbluth

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur…

— Michael Dirda

“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

— Paul Brandt

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I…

— Gregory Orr

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

— Ben Folds

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

— Angus Young

“You're mine, Lyric.”

— Maya Banks

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this…

— Gotye

I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that,…

— Thom Yorke

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

— John Marshall Harlan II

“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…

— Charles Simic