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• Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

  Tupac Shakur

  Trying, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

  Raekwon

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.

  Daniel Tosh

  Writing, Rapper, Southern

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• When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

  Carlos Mencia

  Talking, Two, News

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Half

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• There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

  Craig Shaw Gardner

  Shows, Wells, Show Business

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• We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

  Ian Gillan

  Song, Years, Purple

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

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• So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

  Mark Ronson

  Writing, Mean, Rapper

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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

  Ice T

  Emcee, Different, Way

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• Take 7 emcees put em in a line
  And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme
  It'll take 7 more before I go for mine
  And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

  Rakim

  Brother, Rap, Thinking

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• My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

  Eminem

  Song, Eye, Dry

  Song: My Dad's Gone Crazy, Album: The Eminem Show

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• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Masculine And Feminine, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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• History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

  Seamus Heaney

  Justice, Once In A Lifetime, Sides

  "Doubletake" l. 13 (1990)

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• And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.

  Louis Tomlinson

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

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• Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Time, Verses

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• I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Wish

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1884). “The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne”

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

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Money, Tired

  Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Fatigued"

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• 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

  Rap, Patterns, Flow

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• Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

  Walt Whitman

  Voice, Want, Lectures

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.5, NYU Press

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• ...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Running, Children, Silly

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• The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Practice, Rose

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.411, Wordsworth Editions

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• I start to think, and then I sink
  Into the paper like I was ink
  When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
  I escape when I finish the rhyme.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

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• MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot,
  Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the same.
  I'm sick of that fake thug, R&B-rap scenario, all day on the radio,
  Same scenes in the video, monotonous material.
  ...Y'all don't hear me though:
  These record labels slang our tapes like dope.
  You can be next in line and signed, and still be writing rhymes and broke.

  Stic.man

  Rap, Writing, Thug

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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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• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Inspiration, People

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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