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• There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood-
  Touch of manner, hint of mood;
  And my heart is like a rhyme,
  With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Autumn, Blood

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

  Victor Hugo

  Queens, Charm, Meter

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• Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

  Mem Fox

  Children, Heart, Eight

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• Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

  Francis Beaumont

  Love, Dog, Literature

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1679). “The works of Beaumont & Fletcher: the text formed from a new collation of the early editions”, p.453

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• 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

  Blue, Rose, Wavelength

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• You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

  Nas

  Book, Pages, Nasty

  Song: I Made You Look, 2002

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• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

  Willa Cather

  Christmas, Song, Memories

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

  Ice T

  Education, Writing, Mathematics

  Song: Mind Over Matter, Album: O.G. Original Gangster

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• 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

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

  Raekwon

  Rap, Schwarzenegger, Call Me

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Song, Fun, Thinking

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• Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Views

  Song: Acid Rain, Album: Acid Rap, 2013

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• Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

  Ice T

  Rap, Writing, Mean

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• Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Two, Age

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• I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Wish, Restraint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.219, Harvard University Press

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• Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

  Choi Soo-young

  Morning, Singing, Cartoon

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• I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

  Edgar Guest

  Simple, Everyday Things, People

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• Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

  Chance the Rapper

  Sometimes

  Song: Acid Rain, Album: Acid Rap, 2013

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• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  Talib Kweli

  Common Sense, Records, Best Things

  Song: Ghetto Show, Album: Beautiful Struggle, 2004

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• Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

  William Regal

  Gangsta, Boys, Wwe

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• The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

  Will Rogers

  Real, Government, Oklahoma

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Fire, Blood

  Bayard Taylor (1865). “The Poems of Bayard Taylor”, p.13, Boston : Ticknor and Fields

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• It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.

  Chris Martin

  Agreement, Trade, Hard

  "Coldplay get behind fair trade campaign" by David Munk, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2003.

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• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  William Cowper

  Men, Thinking, Care

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.17

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