A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet…

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois…

— José Ortega y Gasset

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

— Michael Longley

A versifier with neither heart nor soul is, rather than a poet, a dull and lifeless thinking pen or keyboard.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

In about seventh grade, that's when we started playing around with beats, rhymes.

— Takeoff

The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax Of cabbagesand kings And why the sea is…

— Lewis Carroll

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do…

— Robert Lopez

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral,…

— James Fenton

“History rhymes, incompetence repeats itself.”

— Baimungi

Busta Rhymes is my brother from another mother.

— Xzibit

School is cool. Thats why it rhymes

— Terry Crews

People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes,

— Janelle Monae