Doe Quote by 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…

— James Fenton

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

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

— $Teady

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.…

— Conor Oberst

Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like…

— Gregory Orr

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

— Van Morrison

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

— Stephen Sondheim

“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

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within…

— Joanna Newsom

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

Stress and Rest don't deserve to rhyme. there's nothing similar about them.

— Alex Talman

“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell