“A spinster who cannot ‘spin’ a worthwhile ‘star’ is a fallen ‘star’.” — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, it just has to touch someone where your hands couldn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them. — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience. — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Even if the sun refused to shine, even if romance ran out of rhyme, you would still have my heart until the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“Why is it one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere, but one must busta cap in someone's ass?” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once. — Dres Copy Share Image
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. — Jack Prelutsky 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
“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
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
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
“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
“There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good .… — Sharon Sala 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
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as soap that slips… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
