Rhyme Quotes - Page 9

• To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

  Mason Cooley

  Advice, Trying, Paradox

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• In mockery I have set
  A powerful emblem up,
  And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
  In mockery of a time
  Half dead at the top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Powerful, Symbolism, Towers

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

  Nas

  Book, Writing, Past

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• Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

  Ice T

  Writing, Half, Crafts

  Source: collider.com

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Rap, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

  Source: collider.com

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• As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

  Ariel Pink

  Song, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Men, Scribbles

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 187

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• It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Artist, Civilization

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• There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Dresses, Reason

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

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• I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

  J. D. McClatchy

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Years, Echoes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

  Randall Mann

  Turns, Wanted, Displacement

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!

  Charli XCX

  Stars, Want, Nursery

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

  Anna Journey

  Mean, Looks, Ends

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Glorious, Verses

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.53, Arktos

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• Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

  Clement Attlee

  Publish

  "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 128), 1986.

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• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  Ezra Pound

  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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• I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Blow, Soul

  'Shop' (1876) st. 21

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• Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Writing, Hands, Ties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People always have these debates about who their favourite rapper is. And I think it's based upon what mood that particular person is in. If someone's favourite rapper is a lyricist then they're focused on rhymes or substance. If someone's favourite rapper is a party rapper, you know, someone who makes music about the clubs... "Oh, he's my favourite rapper". No, his subject matter is your favourite.

  Immortal Technique

  Party, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1", 1956.

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• The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.

  DJ Shadow

  Strong, Attitude, Years

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• Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Pennies, Jingles

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.90, Whitaker House

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• I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

  Ice T

  Mean, Bars, Heavy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.

  Andrew Hoberek

  Rap, Artist, Order

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