Lyric

Famous quotes containing the word lyric:

“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“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)