lyrical beauty Quotes

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

Music gives 'wings' to words.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

I was so excited to do 'Slow' with Matoma. The song is lyrically so beautiful, and the production brings it all to life.

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.