Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Music soothes the mind just as painkillers would soothe a sprain.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
“To be lyrical you've got to stuff your ears up and keep other people out of your life- if you have one.” — Alfred Chester Copy Share Image
“Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head. — George Michael 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
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms… — Ursula Hegi 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
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on.… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an… — Patti Scialfa Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll 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
Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains… — Giovanni Raboni Copy Share Image
I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what… — O.C Copy Share Image
I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine 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
