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• I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

  Yukmouth

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.

  Styles P

  Mean, Appreciate, Emcee

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Take a woman talking,
  purging herself with rhymes,
  drumming words out like a typewriter,
  planting words in you like grass seed.
  You'll move off.

  Anne Sexton

  Women, Moving, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• However, I'm older, wiser, more mature, and can deliver the rhymes in a different way. Because I guess I have a more holistic viewpoint and approach.

  MC Lyte

  Different, Viewpoints, Way

  "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blogarama Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• 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

  Rap, Thinking, Play

  "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

  Travie McCoy

  Intelligent, Hip Hop, Inspire

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• Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

  King Louie

  Kings, Life Is Like, Motion Pictures

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• Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

  Thomas More

  Poetry, Reason

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 602-605), 1922.

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• In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

  Ezra Pound

  Poetry, Elements, Likes

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• Yes, I know.
  Death sits with his key in my lock.
  Not one day is taken for granted.
  Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

  Anne Sexton

  Taken, Carpe Diem, Keys

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• 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

  Fusion, Energy, Buoyancy

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.429, Macmillan

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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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• I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

  Del Shannon

  Song, Tape, Saws

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• 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

  Song, Fall, Faults

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• Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

  Denzel Washington

  Practice, Play, Acting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

  Errol Morris

  Crazy, Talking, Levels

  "Errol Morris, On Donald Rumsfeld's Inability to Separate Fact from Fantasy". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme,
  Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Dinner, Poet

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

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• I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

  Harlan Howard

  Titles, Phrases, Littles

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• In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme--
  why are they no help to me now
  I want to make
  something imagined, not recalled?

  Robert Lowell

  Blessed, Poetry, Plot

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”

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• A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.

  Horace Walpole

  Cutting, Shining, Use

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

  Benjamin Graham

  Block, Investing, Laundry

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