Rhyme Quotes
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Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.
— Courtney Barnett
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
— Felix Dennis
Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.
— John Green
I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason. — Edmund Spenser
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason. — Edmund Spenser
I used to pray for times like this to rhyme like this so I had to grind like that to shine like this
— Meek Mill
Yeats answered, "in looking for the next rhyme word.
— Philip Rowland
For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king's affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modulates the king's affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
— Anne Stevenson
Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though.
— Chamillionaire
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus ... I rhyme.
— Saul Williams
Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be against them, but great things happen nonetheless.
— Jamie Schoffman
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
— Denzel Washington
Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
— Sammy Cahn
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
— David Brooks
You want to know what's even more troublesome?" I scooted up. "Our real names rhyme."
He chuckled. "Yeah, they do. I never thought of that. — Diana Peterfreund
He chuckled. "Yeah, they do. I never thought of that. — Diana Peterfreund
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
— B.o.B
People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes,
— Janelle Monae
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— Lee Strauss
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
— Missy Elliott
I must go down to the sea ... to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by ...
— John Masefield
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.
— Anna Journey
It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.
— Khadija Rupa
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? — George Crabbe
People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.
— Chelsea Handler
The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
— Paul Muldoon
I don't write, I build a rhyme.
— Kool Moe Dee
Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.
— Robert Graves
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
— Margaret Atwood
Why is it one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere, but one must busta cap in someone's ass?
— Christopher Moore
In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top. — William Butler Yeats
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top. — William Butler Yeats
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
— Mark Twain
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
— Stephen Sondheim
I found out when I went away from Wythorpe the first time in November
remember? How nice it is to rhyme, I must do it all the time. — Jude Morgan
remember? How nice it is to rhyme, I must do it all the time. — Jude Morgan
There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.
— Ashley Madekwe
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?
— Chance The Rapper
At night, my dreams rhyme, and all day I have an aftertaste of insomnia.
— Vladimir Nabokov
By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.
— William Shakespeare
Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
— Kanye West
There is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
— Mason Cooley
My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
— Travie McCoy
If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.
— Thurman P. Banks Jr.
I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
— Alexander Pope
And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
— Pete Seeger
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
— Andrew Motion
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
— Thomas More
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
— Robert Browning
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.
— Woody Allen
My love flew over the boundary of time
with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme. — Debasish Mridha
with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme. — Debasish Mridha
Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein
I box in yellow Gox box socks.
— Dr. Seuss
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.
— Louis Eric Barrier
My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.
— Frances Stark
A rhyme doesn't make a song.
— Dorothy Fields
Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.
— Robert Breault
She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.
— Drew Magary
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
— Holly Schindler
It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin.
Everybody happy, hair still nappy,
Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy ... — Snoop Dogg
Everybody happy, hair still nappy,
Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy ... — Snoop Dogg
Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.
— Clement Attlee
For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death. Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath
— John Keats
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.
— Mason Cooley
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme — Bil Keane
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme — Bil Keane
Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
— Lauryn Hill
His poetry was to find the enemy and kill him. It didn't rhyme, but it was still a work in progress.
— Shane VanAulen
I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
— Allen Ginsberg
Stop praying for salvation when it is clear,
You are the saviours that we need around here. — Harry Whitewolf
You are the saviours that we need around here. — Harry Whitewolf
A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,
Ou va-ti mistigri?
Passe sans faire de mai ici. — Joanne Harris
Ou va-ti mistigri?
Passe sans faire de mai ici. — Joanne Harris
Sometimes bad things happened to good people. Life was nothing more than a series of events with no rhyme or reason.
— Teresa Mummert
I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.
— Sean Price
The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick.
— John Green
Your politics are so far right,
They're wrong. — Harry Whitewolf
They're wrong. — Harry Whitewolf