In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery,… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time,… — Jacques Brel Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to… — C.M. Kornbluth Copy Share Image
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
