Best Rhyme Wisdom
369 Rhyme quotes by 275 unique authors
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Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
— Howard Nemerov
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My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That…
— Conor Oberst
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle…
— Gilda Radner
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I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.
— Jill Scott
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It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
— Jill Scott
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But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
— Charlie Sheen
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I…
— Ice T
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
— Ice T
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know…
— Ice T
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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
— Saul Williams
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
— Felix Dennis
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Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left…
— Seamus Heaney
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Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind.…
— Julian Barnes
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When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in…
— Christopher Moore
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Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the…
— Walt Whitman
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Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things…
— Norton Juster
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
— Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you…
— Ellen Hopkins
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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
— William Goldman
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When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"…
— Lord Byron
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He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction…
— Terry Pratchett
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For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
— Michael Ondaatje
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