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
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne 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
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
“Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire. No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire. He… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
In the beginning I was just rhyming. I didn't know nothing about the business. I was just laying low in the cut… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
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
When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain… — Rakim 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
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
[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
“And my Black bird, still not quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On that pallid bust -- still flitting through my… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill 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
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
If you get a chance to see him, your heart begins to dance. Your life revolves around him, there's nothing like romance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing.… — David Gallagher Copy Share Image
The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance'… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Silver bullets and a stake in the heart But the cross still awakens my heart I'm the freak of nature that's all… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was… — Bun B Copy Share Image
“Those who pose, suppose that everything goes the way of the dodos. Yet, I've met, some who bet on luck like a… — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't… — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
The way I know I will miss you when you leave me on my own. How I will try to cope, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of… — Laura E. Richards 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
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
I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds.… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“When we see our world is about to unwind,God sees an image of His perfect design.” — Carolyn Cutler Hughes 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 worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And…” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/694/jim-jarmusch-3256_children_kenneth-koch-taught-children-in-public-s_775146.jpg)
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![“I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you…” quote by Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/81d/judy-blume-2002_bed_i-would-make-up-theodor-seuss-like-books_1648426.jpg)
