“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
There's rappers out there that don't even know how to rhyme. They take someone else's words and go with it. To each… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic. — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking… — Bun B 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
There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
“A spinster who cannot ‘spin’ a worthwhile ‘star’ is a fallen ‘star’.” — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme. — Olafur Darri Olafsson Copy Share Image
