Rhyming Quotes - Page 3

• I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

  Mos Def

  Language

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". Interview with Clover Hope, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

  Alexander Pope

  Father, Beer, Soul

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works”, p.105

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• I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

  Jill Scott

  Kids, Thinking, Playing Games

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• A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

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• So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.

  Nicholson Baker

  Kids, Curves, Brain

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

  Helen Keller

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• If skills sold truth be told
  I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
  Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil)
  I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Skills, Common Sense

  "Song: 'Moment of Clarity'". 2003.

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• When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Joy, Mind

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• I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

  Rod Stewart

  Couple, Doe, Lines

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• I was promised on a time
  To have reason for my rhyme;
  From that time unto this season,
  I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  Edmund Spenser

  Reason, Rhyme, Seasons

  'Lines on his Pension'; attributed

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• But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

  Rosanne Cash

  Writing, Giving, Perfect

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• I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

  Evan Dando

  Song, Memories, Book

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

  James Stockdale

  History, Physics, Department

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• I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Verbs, Nouns

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• I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

  Paul Muldoon

  Use, Television, Rhyme

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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Language, Repetition

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Writing, Talking

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

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• Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

  David Ogilvy

  Discipline, Three, Development

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Lines, Strange

  "Harp's Delight - An interview with Joanna Newsom". Interview with Michael Cramer, www.dustedmagazine.com.

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• But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

  John Cena

  Hip Hop, Listening, Hips

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. February 18, 2005.

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• Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And then I just kind of went with it, and thought that, "This is the way that my brain's working," in a more direct way, then I should just try it like that for this album. And follow it. Just went with the writer's block, almost - it's a strange thing.

  Elena Tonra

  Block, Fall, Writing

  "'Our intention was clearer' - Daughter talks battling writer’s block and exploring new influences". Interview With Brian Shultz, substreammagazine.com. April 8, 2016.

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Flower, Careers, Two

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• A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Rap, Sound

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam

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