Lyricism Quotes

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

— Janna Levin

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

— Wale

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

— Joanna Newsom

“Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”

— Anton Chekhov

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

— Charles Baudelaire

Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.

— Roisin Murphy

I've worked really, really hard on my lyricism.

— Little Simz

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

— Cordae

“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what’s the use of writing in order to say exactly what…

— Emil Cioran

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

— Talib Kweli

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

— Joell Ortiz

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of…

— Tennessee Williams

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

— Logic

“There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.”

— Tom Robbins

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

— Nick Cannon

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

— Kyle

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best…

— Maya Angelou

To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in…

— Jessie Reyez

...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly…

— Josef Sudek

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the…

— Ruston Kelly

This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that…

— Chinua Achebe

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced…

— Walker Evans

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with…

— Gustave Flaubert

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that…

— Lauren Willig

“Here, then, happiness is obviously a form of strength, a subversion even, a modus of survival, even if at times it appears…

— Glenn Diaz

Sexuality is the lyricism of the next masses.

— Charles Baudelaire

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry…

— Ernesto Cardenal

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

— Anonymous