Books Quote by Jennifer Warnes

“My prose can be dense. I love to pile on detail. I love to describe. I’m much more reluctant to give the reader entrance…

— Anthony Doerr

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

— David Antin

I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth.

— Nick Cannon

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

— C.E. Morgan

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

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.

— LP

Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author…

— Masiela Lusha

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as…

— Trevor Dunn

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside