Blue Quote by Matthea Harvey

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

“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

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

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

— Howard Nemerov

I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

“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

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or…

— Ezra Pound

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

— William Butler Yeats

Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme.

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

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

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

— Garrison Keillor

“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of…

— Stanislaw Ulam