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• When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

  Errol Morris

  Crazy, Talking, Levels

  "Errol Morris, On Donald Rumsfeld's Inability to Separate Fact from Fantasy". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Simple, May, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.216

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• I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Blow, Soul

  'Shop' (1876) st. 21

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• A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

  Travie McCoy

  Intelligent, Hip Hop, Inspire

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• My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

  Mika

  Childhood, Records, Fairytale

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

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• I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

  William Cowper

  Sound, Tasks, Venture

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.379

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• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  Ezra Pound

  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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• Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

  Clement Attlee

  Publish

  "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 128), 1986.

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• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  Garrison Keillor

  Littles, Come Up, Firecracker

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• The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Glorious, Verses

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.53, Arktos

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• There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

  Woody Allen

  Reason, Seems

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• Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

  King Louie

  Kings, Life Is Like, Motion Pictures

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• It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Artist, Civilization

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• Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Needs, Agree

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• Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Winning, Drunk

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

  Duane Michals

  Helping, Terrible

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• Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Reason

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• San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.

  Patricia Montandon

  San Francisco, Hills

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Fall, Faults

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• I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

  Del Shannon

  Song, Tape, Saws

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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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• There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

  Lois Lowry

  Bunnies

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• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  Damian Marley

  Party, Rap, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Memories, Air

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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