Quotes About Lyricism

He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on. See almost any poet between the Bronze Age and 1805.

I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity

We try to hide it every way we can, but it always comes out, the lyricism. A Lithuanian connot live without nature. You can't detach him from the wide, green fields, from the brooks, the snow, the cobwebs flying through the air in late September, or from his forests, fragrant with moss and beries.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

Repudian las cosas líricas porque obligan a pensamientos muy altos y a gestos demasiado dignos.

Pessimism is the night-side of thought, a melodrama of the futility of the brain, a lyricism written in the graveyard of philosophy.

It's the lyrics that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.

des âmes totalement consacrées à l'art lyrique seront-elles encore possibles à notre époque, dans nos nouvelles conditions d'existence qui arrachent les hommes à tout recueillement et les jettent hors d'eux-mêmes dans une fureur meurtrière, comme un incendie de forêt chasse les animaux de leurs plus profondes retraites ?

Joe learned to view the comic book hero in his formfitting costume, not as a pulp absurdity but as a celebration of the lyricism of the naked (albeit tinted) human form in motion. It was not all violence and retribution in the early stories of Kavalier Clay; Joe's work also articulated the simple joy of unfettered movement, of the able body, in a way that captured the yearnings not only of his crippled cousin but of an entire generation of weaklings, stumblebums, and playground goats.

Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles»

All language is an aspiration to music.

his [Mayakovsky] genius was as indispensable to the Russian Revolution as Dzherzhinsky's police. Lyricism, lyricization, lyrical talk, lyrical enthusiasm are an integrating part of what is called the totalitarian world; that world is not the gulag as such; it's a gulag that has poems plastering its outside walls and people dancing before them.

I love the musicality of words.

Her spirit alternated constantly between spells of lyricism and spirit possession, making no philosophical distinction between the self alone and in relation to others, and unable to achieve the solace of a religious indifference.

I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.

Nada como la química para domar la lírica. Pero no se me vaya a aficionar al truco, que el licor es como el matarratas o la generosidad: cuanto más se usa, menos efecto tiene.

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.