Equal Quote by Stephane Mallarme

“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

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

The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling…

— Muriel Rukeyser

If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce…

— Momus

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

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

“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

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

— Mina Loy

That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may…

— Jay Asher