Rhymes Quotes

167 quotes by 137 authors

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
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
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
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… — Laura McPhee
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
Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark? — Mike Birbiglia
I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone. — Demetri Martin
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will… — Ice T
School is cool. Thats why it rhymes — Terry Crews
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator. — Lord Finesse
Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne. — Lord Finesse
People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes, — Janelle Monae
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell… — Eminem
People only call me 'Fiery' because it rhymes with Fred, just like 'Typhoon' rhymes with Tyson — Fred Trueman
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into… — Willa Cather
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world â€” Los Angeles in the '50s â€” they made perfect sense. — Wanda Coleman
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
Lehman uses many conveyancesâ€”including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesâ€”to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker

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