Rhyme Quotes - Page 18

• Even if the sun refused to shine
  Even if romance ran out of rhyme
  You would still have my heart until the end of time
  You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

  Martina McBride

  Music, Valentine, Heart

  Song: Valentine, Album: Evolution

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• A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Cities, Lines, Lit

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• Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. "Right," simon said. He had already lost count of the numbers of birds there were. Seven, he guessed. A secret that's never been told. Whatever that was.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Two, Numbers

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1526, Simon and Schuster

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• Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
  I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
  All that was said in Ireland is a lie
  Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
  Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Eye, Saving

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Hypocrisy, Sorrow, Coins

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
  Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
  Who plainly say, My God, My King.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Spring, Loss

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.52

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• Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

  Richey Edwards

  Fear, Europe, Barbie

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• I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
  With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
  I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
  Now it's a daily word

  Rakim

  Rap, Rays, Phrases

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• My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Expletives

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Years, Hymns, Etc

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Prayer, Effort, Understanding

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• There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

  Craig Shaw Gardner

  Shows, Wells, Show Business

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Half

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• When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

  Carlos Mencia

  Talking, Two, News

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• Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.

  Daniel Tosh

  Writing, Rapper, Southern

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• I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

  Raekwon

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

  Mark Ronson

  Writing, Mean, Rapper

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Writing, Hype, White

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• One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Relationship, Alive, Body

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes.

  David Gallagher

  Neptune, Beats

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

  Billy Collins

  Keys, Dna, Signatures

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• I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Leaving, Climate

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• The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Poetry, Doe

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• I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Writing, Firsts, Thirteen

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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