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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams. — Claude Debussy

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. — James Joyce

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens

Why do I find it hard to write the next line? — Gary Kemp

Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse

There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches. — Frances Mayes

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. — Herb Alpert

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic. — Novalis

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical. — James Taylor

Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch — Vinnie Paz

Muse's creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art. — Earl M. Coleman

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date. — James McBride

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My skills are musical, not lyrical. — Brian Wilson

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended. — Hiroko Sherwin

I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption. — Maeve Alpin

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now. — Glenn Hughes

Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls. — Selina Siak Chin Yoke

All paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity — Arthur Miller

I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical. — Patricia McBride

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted. — Temi Peters

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. — Billy Sherwood

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song. — Luke Bryan

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips. — Kanye West

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind. — Masiela Lusha

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. — Evelyn Glennie

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. — Hank Azaria

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony. — Eminem

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke, — French Montana

We not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased. — William Wordsworth

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly. — Matt Smith

Jax Cassidy is delightful! Her lush, lyrical way with words will draw you in and keep you turning the pages. — Sylvia Day

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted. — Thurston Moore

Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries. — Tamera Alexander

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration. — Moonshine Noire

Half a page
and the morning is already ancient. — Michael Ondaatje

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. — Dayananda Saraswati

A land of brass and steel and clockwork, of steam airships, cogs that turned and wheels that spun. — Emma Trevayne

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

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood? — Maggie Stiefvater

That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain ... — Billy Corgan

Love tone, rhythm, lyrical or melodic structure from heart to love! is the interlude of true love. — Auliq Ice

Drink up my honey eyes,
Kiss them shut every night,
And be my 'one' all my life. — Crystal Woods

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. — August Bournonville

I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop — Lil' Wayne

He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical. — James M. Cain

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. — Chester Bennington

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana

Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier. — Emilia Clarke

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. — Robert Morgan

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man. — Ernest Solvay

I think I can hear the unseen moon — Alexandra Oliva

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture. — Eminem

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. — Gwen Stefani

Have you ever noticed some of the worst sicknesses in history have a lyrical sound to them? Words like malaria, diarrhea, cholera — Emma Chase

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach. — Erik Rutan

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch — Karsten Harries

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. — Tom Paulin

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. — Maynard James Keenan

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway. — Jimmy Chamberlin

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame. — Andrea Bocelli

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways. — Pattiann Rogers

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer. — Steve Tibbetts

Miracles happen, lyrical inhalation of poetry, you will not stop my words from breathing. — Delano Johnson

It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights as warm as kisses. — Sarah McCarry

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. — Siri Hustvedt

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac. — Mason Cooley

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini

Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin