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Quotes About Lyricism

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
~ Janna Levin
I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.
~ Hozier
I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.
~ The D.O.C.
I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.
~ Kyle
Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
~ Ruston Kelly
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.
~ Ralph Ellison
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me.
~ Inspectah Deck
I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.
~ Julius Hemphill
Sheer lyricism just now is overmuch the mode. It is all very nice and pleasant in its way, and within bounds, but one can have too much of a good thing, and one does not want poetry to become vox et præterea nihil. It is a fashion, doubtless, that will pass.
~ Alfred Austin
Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.
~ Roisin Murphy
chorus of living wood sings to the woman: If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we'd drown you in meaning.
~ Richard Powers
Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.
~ Debbie Millman
Well-written words are music.
~ William Shatner
He really is a famous poet, Nenneke. Surely you're not going to claim you've never heard his ballads." "I've heard them." The priestess winced. "Yes, indeed. Well, I don't know much about it, but maybe the ability to jump from touching lyricism to obscenities so easily is a talent.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my favorite kind of hero--an alpha male angel determined to win the heart of his heroine, Lindsay, while protecting her from his lethal enemy. Lindsay is a gutsy, likable woman with paranormal abilities of her own, as well as a dedication to protecting humanity against a race of demonic monsters. This is definitely a book for your keeper shelf.
~ Angela Knight
Which memories will we take with us? The swimming lyricism of paintings, a last breath of a stanza, the mute kiss of a lover? And there is nothing compared to this: lying awake under the truth of you, the wide eyed sleeplessness of lost dreams. — Jill Battson, from "A Goodbye Poem," Canadian Poetry Online
~ Jill Battson
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
~ Jim Capaldi
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
~ William Collins
The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.
~ Edward Hirsch
Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.
~ Rick Ross
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
~ Kate Christensen
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
~ John Keats
Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
~ Wale