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
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music. — John Cena Copy Share Image
I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like… — Romeo Miller 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
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope 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
I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics,… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then… — Nas 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I… — Talib Kweli 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
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
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is… — Mark Twain 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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be Lyrically, Talib Kweli Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense But I did… — Jay-Z 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
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'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
“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