Lyrical Quotes
107 quotes by 94 authors
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Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough,…
— Danilo Kis
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What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the…
— Denis de Rougemont
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When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in…
— Kiri Te Kanawa
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I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem,…
— Emmy Rossum
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
— Chris Abani
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For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of…
— Eudora Welty
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My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in its wonderful humor…
— Judith Barrington
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The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and…
— George MacDonald
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THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class…
— Joshilyn Jackson
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Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness…
— Jeff Belanger
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All the lyrical rappers I know is broke,
— French Montana
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical…
— John Lahr
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It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're…
— Glenn Tipton
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
— David Whyte
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
— James Taylor
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I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams'…
— Rico Love
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I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
— Tom Paulin
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I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the…
— Sean William Scott
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Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is…
— Rosellen Brown
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