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369 Rhyme quotes by 275 unique authors

Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is… — Frances Ridley Havergal
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can… — Karla Kuskin
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as… — Evan Dando
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… — Lauren F. Winner
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect.… — Rosanne Cash
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of… — Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you? — Chance the Rapper
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a… — Peter Drucker
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" — John Greenleaf Whittier
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs,… — John Edgar Wideman
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. — Derek Jarman
A rhyme doesn't make a song. — Dorothy Fields
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. — Jack Prelutsky
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight… — Joanna Newsom
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. — Anne Stevenson
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no… — Barry McGuire
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to… — Kevin Eubanks
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. — Jean Giraudoux
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. — Thom Gunn
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. — Stephane Mallarme
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. — Missy Elliot
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal;… — Bobby McFerrin
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then… — Jim Capaldi

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