Rhyme Quotes
369 quotes by 275 authors
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before…
— Erykah Badu
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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
— Francis Beaumont
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
— Jon Bon Jovi
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
— Franklin P. Adams
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We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
— Richard Dawkins
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There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.
— Robert Breault
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The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American…
— Richey Edwards
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We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and…
— Unknown Author
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be…
— Ray Bradbury
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,…
— Ruth Pitter
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I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is…
— Janis Ian
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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
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I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use…
— Paul Simon
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in…
— Annie Proulx
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This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
— Ann Reed
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Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making…
— Ann Reed
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