I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Kat held her head high as she met the King's eye. Her stare was bold, yet sweet, and it would not die.… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields 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
“God knows what we do not see, so let Him lead and set you free.” — Carolyn Cutler Hughes 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
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
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