Rime Quotes

All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. (Vitruvius)
With regard to burnt brick... If not made of good clay or if not baked sufficiently, it shows itself defective... when exposed to frosts and rime. Brick that will not stand exposure on roofs can never be strong enough to carry its load in a wall. Hence the strongest burnt brick walls are those which are constructed out of old roofing tiles. View quote
Vitruvius
When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Now rime, the son of rage, which art no kin to skill, And endless grief, which deads my life, yet knows not how to kill, Go seek that hapless tomb, which if ye hap to find, Salute the stones that keep the bones that held so good a mind. View quote
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance. View quote
Amy Lowell
There stole into my mind Coleridge's poignant lines: Ah God! It is fell Christmas-tide So to the shops I hie; And my shopping-list, like the Albatross, About my neck doth lie. This was to be included in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but was dropped to please Wordsworth, who secretly held shares in a large toy-shop and was afraid it might hurt business. View quote
Robertson Davies
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. View quote
Charles Dickens
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. View quote
Thomas Hood
I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime. View quote
X. J. Kennedy