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I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... -- William Butler Yeats
I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot
Hoes I ain't caught
Or shit I ain't bought. -- Ice-T
From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf. -- Alfred Austin
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. -- Gertrude Stein
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme. -- Seamus Heaney
No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH! -- William Goldman
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines. -- H.p. Lovecraft
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. -- Victor Hugo
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. -- Mason Cooley
Still may syllables jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never! -- Ben Jonson
In my poetry a rhyme
Would seem to me almost insolent.
Inside me contend
Delight at the apple tree in blossom
And horror at the house-painter's speeches.
But only the second
Drives me to my desk. -- Bertolt Brecht
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. -- Hilaire Belloc
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line. -- Henry David Thoreau
I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns. -- Delia Sherman
Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click. -- Matthea Harvey
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. -- Margaret Atwood
Now we sing dis stupid song! Sing it as we run along! Why we sing dis we don't know! We can't make der words rhyme prop'ly! -- Terry Pratchett
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme ... For heavier things -- John Mayer
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. -- Jean-Philippe Rameau
Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day! -- Rick Riordan
Sorry, sometimes when I try to rhyme I end up sounding like Yoda. -- Penny Reid
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. -- Jimmy Buffett
Rhyming in itself is magic. -- Gloria Steinem
History rhymes, but geography endures. -- Andrew C. Katen
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world - Los Angeles in the '50s - they made perfect sense. -- Wanda Coleman
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.) -- Anne Stevens
A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart. -- Debasish Mridha
Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I'm being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It's true - rhyme's a completely bankrupt device. It's just wishful thinking. Nostalgia. -- Tobias Wolff
The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king's affairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started going to watch battles and eventually thought to myself, "I'm definitely as good as some of these guys, and maybe even better than them". -- Doc Brown
And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes. -- Louis Tomlinson
Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan. -- Clement Attlee
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated. -- David Grubbs
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. -- David Almond
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. -- Saul Williams
I don't write, I build a rhyme. -- Kool Moe Dee
Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pitches that rhyme are more sublime. -- Daniel H. Pink
My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to ask what rhymes with what: - "Streams of blood"? "Themes of mud"? "Robin Hood"? -- David Mitchell
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. -- Marianne Moore
Oh, southern rappers ... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words. -- Daniel Tosh
Spend a day talking only in rhyme. -- David Salle
History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- Anthony Robbins
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! -- Stephen Sondheim
I've always loved rhyming. I love language. -- Mos Def
Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'. -- John Steinbeck
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print. -- Alexander Pope
In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style. -- Big Sean
What rhymes with smile?" "Bile, as in Your smile makes me want to throw up. -- Jeanne Birdsall
Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon. -- Langston Hughes
People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind. -- Diana Georgeff
I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old, -- Ogden Nash
Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts. -- Carl Sandburg
It's been a long time ... I shouldn't have left you
Without a strong rhyme to step to. -- Rakim
A dalliance with poetry before we dance. -- Delano Johnson
In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else. -- Kim Hyesoon
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes. -- Mark Twain
Syllables govern the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
Your rhyme is like an empty prison ... a waste of bars. -- Lord Finesse
My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage ... -- Meyhem Lauren
You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined? -- David Mutti Clark
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. -- Ice-T
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza. -- Quintus Ennius
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. -- Eminem
poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.
and changes
its composition. -- Sanober Khan
I love to write rhymes that have that perfect jingle. You know what I'm saying when it makes your Heart tingle. -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. -- Boris Pasternak
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep. -- Christopher Morley
The fatal problem with poetry: poems. -- Ben Lerner
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings. -- Robert Graves
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. -- Paul Claudel
Yeats answered, "in looking for the next rhyme word. -- Philip Rowland
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin -- Nas
The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind. -- Sahara Sanders
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme. -- Paul Muldoon
Poems reach me, and hold me, and give me pleasure. -- Anne Sexton
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ... -- May Sarton
And perhaps,frozen somewhere with time,
Our words will never cease to rhyme -- Stuti Dhyani
Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away -- Norman Mailer
You call that poetry? -- Andrew Peterson
There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme. -- Gary Ross
Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme -- Rick Riordan
Poetry, like blood, runs through our veins. -- Marty Rubin
Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All
the best poets write in rhyme."
"Really?"
"Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that. -- Shiela Jane
We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes.
When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign ... -- Jon Connor
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information. -- James Fenton
The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote.
Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical. -- Edmund De Waal
Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace. -- Ovid
Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated. -- Louis Macneice
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. -- George Farquhar
We must listen to poets. -- Gaston Bachelard
Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace. -- Delano Johnson
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head ... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. -- Wyclef Jean
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. -- Francis Beaumont
I used to pray for times like this to rhyme like this so I had to grind like that to shine like this -- Meek Mill
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense -- Talib Kweli
One must read poetry with one's nerves. -- Wallace Stevens
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily. -- Susan B. Anthony
