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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. -- Victor Hugo
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. -- J. Cole
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. -- John Dryden
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop. -- Gene Weingarten
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. -- Mason Cooley
A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. -- Ice T
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. -- Louis Eric Barrier
You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. -- Mos Def
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. -- Jean Giraudoux
For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Gilda Radner
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. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music. -- Erykah Badu
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph. -- Garrison Keillor
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast. -- Kool Keith
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme. -- Conor Oberst
I'm more into beats than rhymes. -- David Gallagher
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- Mark Twain
You a slave to a page in my rhyme book. -- Nas
My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes. -- J. Cole
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. -- Tre Cool
I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes -- Common
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. -- KRS-One
So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing -- J. Cole
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. -- Omar Suleiman
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. -- Edmund Spenser
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. -- Derek Jarman
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious -- Eminem
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. -- John Crowe Ransom
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord. -- James E. Faust
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. -- Francis Beaumont
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. -- Terry Eagleton
With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style. -- Big Sean
I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme. -- Garrison Keillor
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! -- Stephen Sondheim
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. -- Hilaire Belloc
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. -- Mika
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. -- Edmund Spenser
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. -- Pete Seeger
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. -- Eminem
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. -- James Fenton
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God. -- Greg Boyle
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. -- Joanna Newsom
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.' -- James Fenton
Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. -- Jerry Leiber
This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred. -- James Fenton
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme -- Chance The Rapper
A rhyme doesn't make a song. -- Dorothy Fields
Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan. -- Clement Attlee
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I don't write, I build a rhyme. -- Kool Moe Dee
Tell the truth and make it rhyme -- John Lennon
Spend a day talking only in rhyme. -- David Salle
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme. -- Mason Cooley
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -- Mark Twain
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme -- Paul Muldoon
I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me... -- Bubba Sparxxx
San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. -- Patricia Montandon
Love is like wine, drink it as you rhyme. -- Santosh Kalwar
There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress. -- Ashley Madekwe
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant. -- Cormega
Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches. -- Doug Benson
Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. -- Seth Klarman
Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme. -- Robert Breault
I rhyme" to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. -- Seamus Heaney
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. -- Morrissey
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. -- Saul Williams
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. -- Howard Nemerov
My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. -- Ice Cube
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. -- Morrissey
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now. -- Jill Scott
she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things. -- Taylor Swift
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. -- Robert Burns
Reviewing our fight, I asked Janco, "Why do you rhyme when you fight? -- Maria V. Snyder
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. -- Richard Aldington
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -- Albert-László Barabási
I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase. -- Harlan Howard
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -- Albert-László Barabási
Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss". -- Ambrose Bierce
My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme, -- Vita Sackville-West
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. -- Trick Daddy
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words. -- Daniel Tosh
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! -- Ben Jonson
It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. -- Chris Martin
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza. -- Quintus Ennius
Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day! -- Rick Riordan
I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old, -- Ogden Nash
Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick -- Daryl Barnes
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that. -- Channing Tatum
I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself. -- Duane Michals
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. -- Missy Elliot
I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star! -- Charli XCX
A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart. -- Debasish Mridha
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff. -- Dolly Parton
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense -- Talib Kweli
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason. -- Peter Morgan
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. -- Thom Gunn
I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns. -- Delia Sherman
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. -- Jimmy Buffett
It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to. -- Rakim
There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time. -- Woody Allen
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. -- Alexander Pope
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. -- Nick Bantock
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. -- Courtney Barnett
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics. -- Travie McCoy
Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. -- Nikki Giovanni
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. -- Jack Prelutsky
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. -- Matthea Harvey
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. -- Thomas More
Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing. -- Lauryn Hill
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. -- Robert Browning
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. -- Knut Hamsun
When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party. -- Ice T
There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do. -- Lois Lowry
Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you. -- Prodigy

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