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• 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

  Ideas, Different, Delight

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

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

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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• 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.

  Barry McGuire

  Numbers, Down And, Rhyming

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• 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.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Rocks, Play, Use

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

  Thom Gunn

  Rhyming, Way, Meter

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

  Stephane Mallarme

  Ideas, Numbers, Splits

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

  Missy Elliot

  Mean, Rhyming, Mines

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• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Dark, Thinking

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• 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.

  Jim Capaldi

  Bridges, Giving, Shapes

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• I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Thinking, Talking, Competition

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

  David Gallagher

  Girl, Weekend, Dancing

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

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• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Doe, Rhyming, Citing

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• The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

  Paul Claudel

  Magic, Everyday, Phrases

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

  Geoff Ryman

  Beautiful, Witty, Promise

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

  Cassia Leo

  Humanity, Reason, Cruelty

  Cassia Leo (2014). “Black Box”, p.17, Random House

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Angel

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• They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home

  Troy Ave

  Girl, Reading, Home

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• Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-th e-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.

  Robert Moss

  Reality, Veils, World

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• I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

  Nick Bantock

  Children, Careers, Nonsense

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

  David Rakoff

  Would Be, Answers, Why Me

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• History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

  Mark Twain

  Repeats

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• Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

  Cybill Shepherd

  Men, December, Bigs

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