Epigrams Quote by Ernesto Cardenal

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began…

— James Fenton

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

— Lee Ranaldo

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the…

— Stephen Sondheim

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 know if…

— Kenneth Koch

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several…

— John Drinkwater

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It…

— Alison Krauss

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim