Rhyme Quotes

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. (Hilaire Belloc)

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Robert Browning

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

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

The poetic act consists in suddenly seeing that an idea splits into a number of motives of equal value and in grouping them; they rhyme.

Stéphane Mallarmé

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

Clement Attlee

A rhyme's ... a barrel of dynamite. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smoulders, the rhyme explodes – and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

Ezra Pound

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Edgar Allan Poe

Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

Ben Jonson

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)

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Francis Beaumont

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

William Cowper

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Knut Hamsun

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme Glides noiseless as an oar.

Richard Aldington

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

John Milton

I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Seamus Heaney

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

Rick Riordan

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. (Bobby McFerrin)

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

Howard Nemerov

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Anne Stevenson

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

Barry McGuire

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

David Zucker

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