Lyric

Famous quotes containing the word lyric:

“The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)