Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
I write what I see and whatever inspires me. The energy the earth gives me, what's on my mind, or what's in… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Your debut record, in terms of lyrical content, can be about the last couple of years of your life obviously, but your… — Shura Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands -… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Coming into this, making music, I knew that was something that was going to be held over my head. Okay we get… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to… — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
I think of Gord Downie voice as Whitman-esque. He has a poetic voice that contains multitudes, both the suppleness of the instrument… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with… — Glenn Tipton Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Die Like a Rich Boy' has, for me, some of the strongest lyrical content I've heard in many years; an epic love… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless… — Claude Brown Copy Share Image
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
