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369 Rhyme quotes by 275 unique authors

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears...… — Bayard Taylor
The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water… — Will Rogers
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your… — A. E. Housman
I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old, — Ogden Nash
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or… — Alexander Pope
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes… — John Dos Passos
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles. — David Brooks
Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like. — Jeremih
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything -… — J. Cole
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. — Trick Daddy
You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. — Mos Def
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the… — Mos Def
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. — Terry Eagleton
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music. — James Fenton
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age… — James Fenton
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself… — James Fenton
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem… — James Fenton
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme,… — James Fenton
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but… — James Fenton
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo
When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in… — Wyclef Jean
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're… — Queen Latifah
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. — Van Morrison

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