Rhyme Quotes

• If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.

  

  Karla Kuskin
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Feelings

• Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Poetry
  • Rhyme
  • Metre

• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Common
  • Records
  • Rhyme

• 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.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Elements

• When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

  

  Kate Tempest
  • Thinking
  • Needed
  • Thirty

• In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading

• It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Energy
  • Poet
  • Concern

• When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Poetry
  • Rap
  • I Love

• Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.

  

  Andrew Hoberek
  • Poetry
  • Rap
  • Techniques

• There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Rhyme

• I don’t care if these words don’t rhyme, I don’t care if this melody isn’t exciting, I don’t care if these people have heard this story before—this is my story and I’m putting it out.

  

  Cyn
  • Care
  • Story
  • Rhyme

• The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Magic
  • Everyday
  • Phrases

• I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

  

  Delia Sherman
  • Patterns
  • Rhyme
  • Apples

• This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

  

  Ann Reed
  • Question
  • Lazy
  • Rhyme

• What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • People
  • Battle
  • Rapper

• I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Experience
  • Write
  • Books

• With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

  

  Cassia Leo
  • Reason
  • Humanity
  • Cruelty

• I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Poetry
  • Darkness
  • Rhyme

• You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Find
  • Meaning
  • Puzzle

• 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
  • Emotions
  • Devices
  • Rhyme

• Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Song
  • Fall
  • Sometimes

• 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

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Justice
  • Lifetime
  • Wave

• My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Mother
  • Facts
  • Rhyme

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