Rhyme Quotes - page 4

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. (Victor Hugo)
Still haunted by Haiku, and tried my hand at it, but I fall pitifully short of the Wordsworthian touch. But failure in this realm turned my mind to an old enthusiasm of mine, the Welsh englyn. This verse form was derived by the Welsh from the inscriptions which their Roman conquerors put on tombs ... A good englym must have four lines, of ten, then six, syllables, the last two lines having seven syllables each. In the first line there must be a break after the seventh, eighth, or ninth syllable, and the rhyme with the second line comes at this break; but the tenth syllable of the first line must either rhyme or be in assonance with the middle of the second line. The last two lines must rhyme with the first rhyme in the first line, but the third or fourth line must rhyme on a weak syllable. Got that? View quote
Robertson Davies
I invariably, after great familiarity with a film, concoct a personal way of reading it that relies entirely on information which a public audience would, I feel, have scant interest. I might travel from a casual unrehearsed glance of a minor character to a detail of folded cloth, from a rhyme in the dialogue to an over-excited high note in the music, from a misplaced shadow to a patch of rogue colour, from a shine on a furniture leg to a curious accidental photographic haze around a street lamp, from the examination of a cloud that looks like a snail to the discomfort of an actress who I know is stifling a sneeze. View quote
Peter Greenaway
My song can make you cry, take you by surprise. At the same time, can make your dry your eyes with the same rhyme. See what you're seeing is a genius at work, which to me isn't work, so it's easy to misinterpret it at first. View quote
Eminem
If I was a junkman selling you cars, Washing your windows and shining your stars, Thinking your mind was my own in a dream What would you wonder and how would it seem? Living in castles a bit at a time The King started laughing and talking in rhyme. Singing words, words between the lines of age. Words, words between the lines of age. View quote
Neil Young
Hey, my masters, lords and brothers, ye that till the fields of rhyme, Are ye deaf ye will not hearken to the clamor of your time? View quote
James Branch Cabell
He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. View quote
John Milton
Loafe with me on the grass-loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want-not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. View quote
Walt Whitman
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain - To thy high requiem become a sod. View quote
John Keats
But were there ever any Writh'd not of passed joy? The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it, Nor numbed sense to steel it, Was never said in rhyme. View quote
John Keats
Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
History says don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. View quote
Seamus Heaney
And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. View quote
Norton Juster
Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme. View quote
Rick Riordan
My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. View quote
Ice Cube
When I was born, one of those twisted angels who live in the shadows said: "Carlos, get ready to be a misfit in life!" (...) My God, why have you forsaken me if you knew that I wasn't God, if you knew that I was weak. World so large, world so wide, if my name were Clyde, it would be a rhyme but not an answer. World so wide, world so large, my heart's even larger. I shouldn't tell you, but this moon but this brandy make me sentimental as hell. View quote
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme. View quote
Joanne Harris
I have not used rhyme, because what is really, in the long run, of most interest to American readers is what the poems say; and if one uses rhyme, it is impossible not to sacrifice sense to sound. View quote
Arthur Waley
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme. View quote
Saul Williams
There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress. View quote
Ashley Madekwe
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape. (Del Shannon)
A rhyme doesn't make a song. View quote
Dorothy Fields
I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself. View quote
Duane Michals
A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. View quote
Ice T
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. View quote
J. Cole