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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, History

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.

  Tony Judt

  Men, Together, Different

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Sexy, Distance, People

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• I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my soul. He's Lucifer. I'm torn I'm selling my soul to the rhythm because I'm become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I'm not looking back.

  Selena Gomez

  Song, Baby, Love You

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Ambition, Intelligent

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• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

  David Nicholls

  Night, Romance, Atmosphere

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• Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.

  Howard Frank Mosher

  Powerful, Struggle, Book

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• ... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Self, Tears

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.57, Open Road Media

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

  Peter Straub

  Brave, Risk, Enormous

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

  Steve Tibbetts

  Dancer, Listening, Liquid

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• When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

  M. Ward

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Friendship, Best Friend, Song

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• I get by with a little help from my friends.

  John Lennon

  Best Friend, Friendship, Song

  "Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

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• I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

  John Legend

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

  Talib Kweli

  Education, Skills, Community

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

  Chris Abani

  Beautiful, First Love, Fiction

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• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Rocks, Track

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

  Hank Azaria

  Hate, Writing, Fans

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

  Novalis

  Epic, Men, Dramatic

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.65, SUNY Press

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

  Karsten Harries

  Despair, Kitsch, Easy

  Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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• I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

  Stephen Lang

  Race, People, Want

  "EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lang Talks White Irish Drinkers" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

  Mason Cooley

  Ugliness

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