Quotes About Lyric

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

This is truth the poet sings . . .

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

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 experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

One sublime malady/Is still called song.

I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Too many poets are insufficiently interested in story. Their poems could be improved if they gave in more to the strictures of fiction: the establishment of a clear dramatic situation, and a greater awareness that first-person narrators are also characters and must be treated as such by their authors. The true lyric poet, of course, is exempt from this. But many poets wrongly think they are lyric poets.

La poesía lírica es un territorio en el que cualquier afirmación se hace verdad.

The genius of lyric poetry is the genius of inexperience.

You're every love song ever written.

With its clotted jargon, circular reasoning, and smug, debunking cynicism, poststructuralism works only on narrative—on the longer genres of story and novel. It is helpless with lyric poems, where the individual word has enormous power and mystery and where the senses are played upon by rhythm, mood, and dreamlike metaphors.

Goo-goo, g'joob!

I can't bear a trite lyric: sometimes this can be overlooked, but rarely.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

For in song lies the mystery of Being.

It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words.

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.