Rhyme Quotes - page 6

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for 'bliss.' It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. (Ambrose Bierce)
Universities are turning out thousands of reporters. They are quite bright and they don't have to rhyme. View quote
Mighty Sparrow
I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word." "Oxygen deprivation," said Foaly. "Or maybe it's just him. View quote
Eoin Colfer
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. View quote
John Dryden
Though fancy and the might of rhyme, That turneth like the tide, Have borne me many a musing time, Beloved, from thy side Ah yet, I pray thee, deem not Sweet, Those hours were given in vain; Within these covers to thy feet I bring them back again. View quote
Archibald Lampman
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music. View quote
Erykah Badu
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. View quote
Pete Seeger
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Who says it's poetry, anyhow? My ten year old can do it and rhyme. Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher, he ought to know. Go and find work. View quote
Basil Bunting
Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme. View quote
Andrzej Sapkowski
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. (Terry Eagleton)
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme. View quote
William Cowper
You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. View quote
Mos Def
Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. View quote
Ray Bradbury
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. View quote
Thomas More
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. View quote
James Fenton
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music. View quote
James Fenton
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to. View quote
James Fenton
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't. View quote
James Fenton
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: "lane" rhymes with "pain", but it also rhymes with "urbane" since the last syllable of "urbane" is stressed. "Lane" does not rhyme with "methane". (James Fenton)
Here we are, my friend. Once again I'm inclined to rhyme one time. So won't you lend me your ear? Cuz it's clear That this here has no pain If this song was the blues you'd be sheddin a tear Like a baby Maybe. View quote
Everlast
For the world was built in order And the atoms march in tune Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In sorrow there is no rhyme. Dream the kind of a life that you will find The kind of love that lasts forever. Dream the kind of a life that you will find The kind of love that lasts forever. In heaven there is no time. View quote
Becky Stark
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou. View quote
Charles Baudelaire