Rhyme Quotes

• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

  Mos Def

  Add, Want, Mathematics

  "Go on Chuck, just make my day" by Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.

  R. S. Thomas

  Men, Blood, Sweat

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

  Anne Stevens

  Echoes, Sound, Pounds

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• Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

  Mason Cooley

  Poetry, Gaps, Muse

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• A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

  Eminem

  Funny, People, Brain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  Mark Twain

  Past, History, Doe

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Fate, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Wire, Rhyming, Poet

  "At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn't Done Yet". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 11, 2015.

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• I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

  India.Arie

  True Life, Energy, Force

  Source: www.tv.com

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• For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Order, Tunes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.69

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

  Dolly Parton

  Mother, Stuff, Facts

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Silver Bells, Icy, Bells Ringing

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

  Saul Williams

  Rhyming, Making Up

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• Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A person's a person, no matter how small.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Our Actions, Blank, Please

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• Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

  Langston Hughes

  Moon, Tunes, Littles

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.72, University of Missouri Press

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• History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

  Mark Twain

  May, Repeats

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• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Rhyming, Impossible

  'La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu' (1935; translated as 'Tiger at the Gates' by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 1

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• Great is the art,
  Great be the manners, of the bard.
  He shall not his brain encumber
  With the coil of rhythm and number;
  But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
  He shall aye climb
  For his rhyme.
  "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Angel, Numbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

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• Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

  John Dryden

  Art, Rocks, Wrecks

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 2, l. 486

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