Lyric Poetry Quotes: top 21 famous quotes about Lyric Poetry

Lyric Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. — Charlotte Eriksson

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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. — Seamus Heaney

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. — Eugenio Montale

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations. — Kojo Annan

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. — Susan Stewart

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem. — Vijay Seshadri

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric. — Ernesto Cardenal

Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group. — George Orwell

You cannot see me from where I look at myself — Francesca Woodman

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. — Sarah Orne Jewett

- you have the Hindenburg burning inside you always - — A. L. Kennedy

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim

A beautiful woman combining the prospect of happiness and nakedness in the same spoken sentence could achieve the power of the greatest lyric poetry. — Nick Hornby

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand. — Guy Clark

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti