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  • Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

    Poetry   Myrtle   Ruins  
    George Crabbe, “The VILLage: Book I”
  • I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

    Poetry   Darkness   Rhyme  
    Seamus Heaney (2014). “Poems, 1965-1975”, p.40, Macmillan
  • I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

    Writing   Firsts   Rhyme  
    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

    Sweet   Feet   Patterns  
    "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.
  • I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

    Source: www.tv.com
  • I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

    Song   Tape   Saws  
  • The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

    Kitchen   Gone   Tables  
  • I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

    Rhyming   Rhyme  
    "Song: 'Ugly'". 2001.
  • My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

  • Bass! How low can you go? Death row...what a brother know. Once again, back is the incredible, The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!" Public Enemy Number One. Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb. Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun? But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

    Brother   Rap   Animal  
  • I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

    "Brooks and Marcus on Cameron's victory, Senate vote to review Iran deal". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2015.
  • I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

    Girl   School   Years  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.

    Mad   Needs   Half  
  • Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.

    Rap   Hip Hop   Gold  
    Song: On the Bugged Tip, Album: Long Live the Kane
  • Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

  • We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

    Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press
  • Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once upon a time We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told We need words to hold us and the world to behold us For us to truly know our souls

    Children   Voice   Nurse  
  • You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

    Add   Want   Mathematics  
    "Go on Chuck, just make my day" by Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.
  • Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

    Simple   Naked   Elegance  
    Philip Levine (2011). “The Simple Truth: Poems”, p.62, Knopf
  • I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.

    Men   Haha   Rhyme  
    "Exclusive: Sean Price Speaks On Mic Tyson, “The Pill” w/ Ill Bill, & Trading Boot Camp For Wu-Tang". Interview with Chris Pattinson, www.hiphopsite.com. October 27, 2012.
  • I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

    Writing   Rhyme  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics
  • I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'

    Basketball   Rap   Men  
  • My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

    War   Simple   Feelings  
  • I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.

    Real   Writing   Talking  
  • In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!

  • I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

    Flower   Heart   Rose  
    William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin
  • The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

    Rhyme   Glorious   Verses  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.53, Arktos
  • The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: "lane" rhymes with "pain", but it also rhymes with "urbane" since the last syllable of "urbane" is stressed. "Lane" does not rhyme with "methane".

    Pain   Stressed   Doe  
    "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.
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