Claims Quote by Gregory Orr

“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem,…

— Tobias Wolff

“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody…

— Diana Georgeff

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not…

— Tupac Shakur

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

— Seamus Heaney

Sometimes you cant rhyme in everything you say cause you still gotta make sense.

— $Teady

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…

— Paul Simon

“So the first thing about the history of rhyme . . . is that it’s all happened before. It’s all part of these huge…

— Nicholson Baker

Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a…

— Derek Walcott

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound…

— Anne Stevens

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that…

— Rakim

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

— John Cooper Clarke