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• I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

  Talib Kweli

  Children, Love Is, Enough

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• I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

  Craig Finn

  Car, Bars, Problem

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Philosophical, Play, Echoes

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

  Gene Weingarten

  Firsts, Idiot, Unnecessary

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

  Rakim

  Hobbies, Beats, Trade

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Dangerous Man, Dictionary

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Children, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And then I just kind of went with it, and thought that, "This is the way that my brain's working," in a more direct way, then I should just try it like that for this album. And follow it. Just went with the writer's block, almost - it's a strange thing.

  Elena Tonra

  Block, Fall, Writing

  "'Our intention was clearer' - Daughter talks battling writer’s block and exploring new influences". Interview With Brian Shultz, substreammagazine.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

  Jay Leno

  Rumor, Trouble, Jihad

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• Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Games, Criticism, Hierarchy

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.

  Stephen Burt

  Poetry, Connections, Generations

  Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

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• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

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• Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Rap, Sound

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam

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• But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

  John Cena

  Hip Hop, Listening, Hips

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. February 18, 2005.

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• Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

  David Ogilvy

  Discipline, Three, Development

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Writing, Talking

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Flower, Careers, Two

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• My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

  Eminem

  Climbing, Skills, Mind

  "Song: 'Infinite'". 1996.

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• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Lines, Strange

  "Harp's Delight - An interview with Joanna Newsom". Interview with Michael Cramer, www.dustedmagazine.com.

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• I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Rhyme

  "Song: 'Ugly'". 2001.

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• I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

  Ice Cube

  Heart, Boys, Nuts

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Swings, Years

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence.

  Laura E. Richards

  Bible, Children, Believe

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