Rhyming Quotes - Page 3

• I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

  Mos Def

  Language

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". Interview with Clover Hope, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

  James Stockdale

  History, Physics, Department

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• 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.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Joy, Mind

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• I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

  Rod Stewart

  Couple, Doe, Lines

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• I was promised on a time
  To have reason for my rhyme;
  From that time unto this season,
  I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  Edmund Spenser

  Reason, Rhyme, Seasons

  'Lines on his Pension'; attributed

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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Language, Repetition

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

  Paul Muldoon

  Use, Television, Rhyme

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• I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Verbs, Nouns

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• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

  Alexander Pope

  Father, Beer, Soul

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works”, p.105

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• 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

  Song, Memories, Book

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

  Rosanne Cash

  Writing, Giving, Perfect

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• Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

  Helen Keller

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.

  Nicholson Baker

  Kids, Curves, Brain

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

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• If skills sold truth be told
  I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
  Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil)
  I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Skills, Common Sense

  "Song: 'Moment of Clarity'". 2003.

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• I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

  Jill Scott

  Kids, Thinking, Playing Games

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• 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.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Thinking, Faithful, Alphabet

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

  Walt Whitman

  Passion, Arbitrary, Language

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.323, Courier Corporation

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• I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

  Bun B

  Rapper, Two, Typical

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

  Jack London

  Poetry, Fool

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1475, Delphi Classics

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• The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

  Robert Morgan

  Facts, Form, Blank

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• It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

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

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• I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: sunsetintherearview.com

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• I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

  William Shakespeare

  Festivals, Born, Planets

  1598 Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.2, l.35-9.

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

  Immortal Technique

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hardcore

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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