A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'll be there forever and a day - Always I'll be there till the stars don't shine Till the heavens burst and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
I just want to thank Wayne for even mentioning me. I've been following his career since he started, just watching him evolve.… — Aaron Dontez Yates Copy Share Image
“कंदर्प अगणित अमित छवी नव नील नीरज सुन्दरम। पट्पीत मानहु तडित रूचि शुचि नौमी जनक सुतावरम॥ To Sri Ram, whose beauty is… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe… — Peter Drucker 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
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse;… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
One last time, That's all I ask, One last rhyme, I shed my mask, Tears like rain, Run down my face, Filled… — Brittany Mason 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
Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role,… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at… — Laura McPhee Copy Share Image
An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I… — Styles P Copy Share Image
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“I never really saw the celerity of your heart When steadily fighting off the Kierkegaardian part I listened to Plutarch While you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An'… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
"Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Being older now, grown, I'm like, 'What do we really do that's fun?' I'm kind of corny when you think about it.… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp, Sethera, lethera, hovera, covera, dik; Yan-a-dik, tan-a-dik, tethera-dik, pethera-dik, bumfit, Yan-a-bumfit, tan-a-bumfit, tethera-bumfit, pethera-bumfit, figgit.” — Marc Vyvyan-Jones Copy Share Image
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start… — Eminem Copy Share Image
