Rhyme Quotes

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

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.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.