Assonance Quotes

• Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Spring, Vowels, Soil

  1965 Bygones.

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• Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

  Amy Lowell

  Use, Cadence, Kind

  "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.

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• I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Girl

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mind, Alliteration, Corridors

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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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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• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Echoes, Lines, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Leaving, Novelists, Use

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

  Erich Fromm

  Ends, Ambiguous, Clear

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Book, Titles, Inspired

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