Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from… — Eminem Copy Share Image
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time… — Taylor Mali 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
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 Copy Share Image
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I came in the door, I said it before I never let the mic magnetize me no more. But it's biting me,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell… — Bun B Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying… — Leif Enger 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
Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick — Daryl Barnes Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm really accomplishing something with harmony and melody. Ultimately, again, I'm not a singer, some people can sing with… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
