Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her… — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. — Trick Daddy Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood 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
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
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to… — Vladimir Mayakovsky 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
I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't… — LL Cool J 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
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't.… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
