“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
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
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what… — Anne Stevens Copy Share Image
When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and… — James Paxton Copy Share Image
I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really… — J. Cole 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
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
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“॥दोहा॥ श्रीगुरु चरन सरोज रज, निज मनु मुकुरु सुधारि। बरनउँ रघुबर बिमल जसु, जो दायकु फल चारि॥ Doha With the dust of… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending, now i've learned the hard way, that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a… — Ana Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which… — Bone Crusher Copy Share Image
Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a perfect ending. But over the years Ive learned that some of the best poems dont rhyme, and many great… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I’ve been worried since I left the womb Like a schizophrenic on shrooms Like a hypochondriac on crack Never shy with the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes… — James Fenton 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
I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“A glassy calm replaced the storm surrounding their boat. The distant thunder struck a note, white-hot and remote. An invisible magnet seemed… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Emceeing has always been about making the most intellectual, most creative, wittiest rhyme as possible regardless of any subject. It was always… — Gza Copy Share Image
