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My heroes are Irving Berlin and Cole Porter — those economic lyrists who nailed a sentiment in a scene through a song.

Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river.

She has said in the past that she sees herself as a lyrist first and singer second.

A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought.

As a pastoral lyrist Herrick stands first among English poets.