Epic Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

I come from the era where we didn't say 'he can rap' we said...'He can rhyme.'

— Cee Lo Green

“They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song “Ar Lan y Môr.” And if there was something odd about…

— Patricia Briggs

“Mrs. Poyser was scrupulous in declaring that she had “nothing to say again’ him, on’y it was a pity he couldna be hatched o’er…

— George Eliot

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed…

— Anna Journey

In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the…

— William Butler Yeats

“Comus. The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav'n doth hold, And the gilded Car of Day, [ 95 ]…

— John Milton

“Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be. Northmen's thing made southfolk's place but howmulty plurators made eachone in per-son? Latin me that, my trinity…

— James Joyce

Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very…

— Cassandra Clare

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

I only rhymed to certain people. I'd be more likely to just snap on people than do a whole rhyme. But eventually Cappadonna really…

— Inspectah Deck

“Gansey said abruptly. "In we go. Ronan, don't forget to set the directional markers as we go. We're counting on you. Don't just stare…

— Maggie Stiefvater