Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as… — Yukmouth Copy Share Image
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. — Mika Copy Share Image
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the… — Choi Soo-young Copy Share Image
You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
“Kat held her head high as she met the King's eye. Her stare was bold, yet sweet, and it would not die.… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
My work complete, A job well done. I must say, It was damn fun. Now I fade, As I always do, Into… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,' They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond. — Mike D Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have these rhyme-based ideas because I love Julia Donaldson. 'The Snail and the Whale' is one of the most beautiful poems,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I love you more than words can say. I think about you every day. Each moment with you is a moment worth… — Andrea Salazar Copy Share Image
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
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,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
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