One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'll be there till the stars don't shine; till the Heavens burst; and the words don't rhyme. And I know when I… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be… — Elvis Presley 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
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's… — Georgia Byng Copy Share Image
Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The… — John Prine Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I have a little nursery rhyme for all you children out there, something even the Godfather can understand. 'You can prance and… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
“The ubiquitous faculty of conscience is ever ready, either as a silent witness or a prodding disciplinarian, thus rendering the offender susceptible… — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope 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
I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled… — Sadat X Copy Share Image
Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I only rhymed to certain people. I'd be more likely to just snap on people than do a whole rhyme. But eventually… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing.… — David Gallagher Copy Share Image
So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but… — Jordana Spiro Copy Share Image
“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Larry King has been married more times than Henry the Eighth. We used to have that rhyme to keep track of them.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write a love song, you need to not try to write it for a particular person in a… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write… — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
