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  • Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

    Mother   Veins   Rhyming  
    'Tamburlaine the Great' (performed c.1588, published 1590) pt. 1, prologue
  • 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.

    Sweet   Feet   Patterns  
    "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.
  • I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

    Rhyming   Rhyme  
    "Song: 'Ugly'". 2001.
  • I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.

    Nas
    Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.
  • Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics
  • The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

    Heart   Rhyming   Guides  
    Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
  • The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

    Rhyming   Facts   Form  
  • Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  • Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.

    Garden   Swings   Years  
    Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
  • Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

    Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press
  • When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

    People   Joy   Mind  
  • Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

    Mean   Rapper   Use  
  • You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  • Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And then I just kind of went with it, and thought that, "This is the way that my brain's working," in a more direct way, then I should just try it like that for this album. And follow it. Just went with the writer's block, almost - it's a strange thing.

    Block   Fall   Writing  
    "'Our intention was clearer' - Daughter talks battling writer’s block and exploring new influences". Interview With Brian Shultz, substreammagazine.com. April 8, 2016.
  • They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

  • Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

    Bridges   Giving   Shapes  
  • I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

    Wire   Rhyming   Poet  
    1958 'A Coney Island of the Mind', section 15.
  • Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

  • Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

    Funny   Rap   Sound  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam
  • I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  • As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

    Writing   Skills   Knack  
  • read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence.

  • We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.

    Hip Hop   Rhyming   Hips  
    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

    'La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu' (1935; translated as 'Tiger at the Gates' by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 1
  • Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  • Money gives me pleasure all the time.

    'Fatigued' (1923)
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