Quotes about rhyme
Jack Prelutsky -
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Tim O'Brien -
Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.
Victor Hugo -
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
James Fenton -
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
Alex Gaskarth -
Champagne morning, sleepless grin, setting off and settling in. Today feels good.
Rick Riordan - The Last Olympian
Seven half-bloods shall answer the callTo storm or fire the world must fallAn oath to keep with a final breathand foes bear arms to the doors of death
Philip Pullman - Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Princess, princess, youngest daughter,Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t worth a rusty pin.Keep your promise, royal daughter,Open up and let me in!
Criss Jami - Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
Chance is your godThough you're falling free you will land hard
Nora Roberts - Morrigan's Cross
Witches, he thought. Always rhyming.
W.B. Yeats -
And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your grandfather and your grandmother, nd upon all your relations.'Is he cursing in rhyme?'He is cursing in rhyme, and with two assonances in every line of his curse.'("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
Melinda K. Trotter - Buster the Treasure Hunter Dog
On the steps leading to a doorwas a scrub brush that was blue.I snatched it quick and ran for homebecause it was just the thing to chew.
Olaotan Fawehinmi - I Would Not...
When we step in the name of love, we cannot rhyme if we don't have the same RHYTHM, and we cannot have the same rhythm if we are not listening to the same BEAT.It takes someone who understands the rhythm and melody of your "heartbeat" to dance to it.
John Masefield -
I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by......
Criss Jami - Healology
By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.
Peter Porter -
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
Leif Enger - Peace Like a River
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, "I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think?""Prevail on Dale," I repeated to Swede."To make a sale," she added."And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale--""Till he needs braille!""Will you guys desist?" Dad asked.
Jennifer Reeser - Fleur de Lis
I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry,heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.
Jennifer Reeser - Fleur de Lis
The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony
Jean Giraudoux -
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Francis Beaumont -
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Debasish Mridha -
Every little or big problem has a reason,Every year there is a winter season,Every trouble goes away with time,After winter spring comes with rhyme.
Debasish Mridha -
A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
Saul Williams -
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who will follow Madoc's rhyme?Blue will alter time and space.
Rosalyn Drexler - The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays
I, Larry Vail, do hereby confessTo murdering Merry in her little dress.To strangling and raping and making a mess.To all of these charges the answer is yes.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'I inquire, why'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock the tickets, higher volumeVelocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot
Melinda K. Trotter - Poopsie the Pet White Mouse
Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.They liked to run races for cheese.Mice were lots of fun to play with.Jill said, "Take Poopsie, the male one, please!
Melinda K. Trotter - Tickles the Pet Squirrel
Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.Out popped his head for a quick look, then he took leave.He enjoyed scaling up, down and around her shirt.What a sweet, funny and adorable flirt.
Dr. Seuss - Blue Fish
I box in yellow Gox box socks.
Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul.
John Flanagan - The Tournament at Gorlan
Halt glared at his friend as the whistling continued.'I had hoped that your new sense of responsibly would put an end to that painful shrieking noise you make between your lips' he said.Crowley smiled. It was a beautiful day and he was feeling at peace with the world. And that meant he was more than ready to tease Halt 'It's a jaunty song''What's jaunty about it?' Halt asked, grim faced. Crowley made an uncertain gesture as he sought for an answer to that question.'I suppose it's the subject mat
Criss Jami - Venus in Arms
If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you
Criss Jami - Electric Personality
You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it
Criss Jami - Electric Personality
Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been
Nick -
One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic
Love frees us of all pain, or of any restraint. Once a circle that ever widens without end. Various colors it shines in our lives to paintExcelsis, glorious manifestation to befriend.
Melinda K. Trotter - Spice Cat Wishes for a Buddy
That weekend my people brought home a big eared gray scrawny kit.He was so loud and annoying that I did not like him one bit.
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
Sarah Brownlee -
My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire.
Kjiva -
I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.
John E. Wordslinger -
The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine
Munindra Misra - Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
॥दोहा॥श्रीगुरु चरन सरोज रज, निज मनु मुकुरु सुधारि।बरनउँ रघुबर बिमल जसु, जो दायकु फल चारि॥DohaWith the dust of guru’s lotus feet having,I cleanse the mirror of my soul sparkling,Raghuvar’s spotless glory I be singing,The four fruits of life it ever is giving.- 303 -
Munindra Misra - Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
Shani Chalisa॥दोहा॥ Dohaजय-जय श्री शनिदेव प्रभु, सुनहु विनय महराज।करहुं कृपा हे रवि तनय, राखहु जन की लाज॥Shani Maharaj, glory to you with sincerity,Listen to my prayers I request humbly,Bestow your grace and protect me fully,Keep respect and honour of your devotees.- 341 -
Munindra Misra - Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme
संकट मोचन हनुमानाष्टकमत्तगयन्द छन्दबाल समय रबि भक्षि लियो तब तीनहुँ लोक भयो अँधियारो।ताहि सों त्रास भयो जग को यह संकट काहु सों जात न टारो।देवन आनि करी बिनती तब छाँड़ि दियो रबि कष्ट निवारो।को नहिं जानत है जग में कपि संकटमोचन नाम तिहारो॥१॥When as a child you lapped the sun, darkness on triple world fell,The worlds so got into trouble and a crisis that none could dispel,Gods then prayed to you to spare the sun and you did so quell,Who doesn’t know in this world your name `Problem Solver’ bells?- 29
Khadija Rupa - Unexpressed Feelings
It’s a poem, of our love, that doesn’t rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.