"Lyricism is thinking without logic (although not contrary to logic), association not according to laws of thought but according to laws of intuition, the whispering of vague emotions, hidden correspondences, darkly murmuring subterranean streams. Lyricism again is thought without consequence, instinct and presentiment, leaping quickly in lawless synthesis; it is union but not a chain formed of individual links, it is melody but not scales."
- Stefan Zweig