Rhyme Quotes - Page 15

• The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, May, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Always Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  Lord Byron

  Mean, Love Is, People

  "Don Juan". Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

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• I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

  LeCrae

  Growing Up, Rap, Opportunity

  "A conversation with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Skills, Numbers

  Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

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• He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

  William Goldman

  Giving Up, Matter, Lovers

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.111, A&C Black

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• Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Eternity, Perishing

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• With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

  Alice Meynell

  Echoes, Bird, Musician

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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• If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Justice, Doubt, Together

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Feelings, Emotion

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

  Taylor Swift

  Kids, Writing, Men

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• When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Song, Pain

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• I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  One Day, Littles, Baths

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• I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

  David Levithan

  Hate, Lying, Cutting

  "Fictional character: Kat Stratford". "10 Things I Hate About You", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Writing, Listening, Sitting

  Source: dishmag.com

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• Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es tiempo. Es un verso sin rima, y todo depende de ti.»

  Kerstin Gier

  Sin, Solo, Verses

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Zafiro (Rubí 2)”, p.210, MONTENA

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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 think it's important to know how to free in case you fall of what you've written, you can be able to keep going with your rhymes. I think it's also good for the culture of emceeing. It's about microphones and about controlling the crowd; it's about rocking the party.

  Kurupt

  Fall, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I've always been able to write rhymes and that would be like when you consult with your girl. When I'm mad and s - t like that I would throw headphones on and close my room door, when I'm mad I just close the door with my girl and f - k her. In so many different ways hip-hop has been like my girl and it's always been there to hold me down.

  Joell Ortiz

  Girl, Writing, Doors

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.

  Sarah Weeks

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Country, War, Believe

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• I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!

  Sarah Weeks

  Cheating, Believe, School

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• You're Bes, I guess?" I said. "Yes," he said. "Your car's a mess," Liz muttered. "If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up.

  Rick Riordan

  Car, Liz, Emma

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and they can still come up with great work. But (what) I enjoy and it's the same, I suppose, as I became more of a family man, I enjoy, I enjoy an atmosphere where it, you know, doesn't have to be about conflict to get good results.

  Andy Serkis

  Men, People, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Memories, Heart, Compassion

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