Lyric Poet Quotes

#1. He is a lyric poet ... aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Samuel Barber

#2. Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

Walther Von Der Vogelweide

#4. The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Kirk Cameron

#5. It's clever, but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling

#6. ... it's not possible to truly become desensitized or accustomed to discrimination. It's something one endures.

Mary Lindsey

#7. Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.

Dean Koontz

#8. After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

Josh Radnor

#9. He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#10. 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

#11. A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

Dan Jenkins

#13. The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

Kwame Dawes

#15. It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Robert Teeter

#16. A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Alfred De Musset

#17. Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

Roh Moo-hyun

#18. I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Jesse Ventura

#19. Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, "Oh well, sin doesn't matter much"?

Oswald Chambers

#20. Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#21. If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Horace