Quotes About Rhyme

For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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

Le duc finit son verre, puis énonça cette remarque : — Ce qui me plaît dans l'essence de fenouil, c'est qu'il n'y a aucun autre mot qui rime avec. Avec fenouil. — À moins qu'on ne change de genre, dit Lalix.

We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.

Nature doesn't rhyme her children,' I said, happy to remember the line of Emerson's

Se spune c? rima nu-?i atinge cre?terea complet?, decat dac? este stimulat?.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

I'm trap in marriage with gangsta rhyme and my street life.

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.

Spermicide' sort of rhymes with 'pesticide', yet you wouldn't put a load of DDT in you know where to kill you know what, now would you?

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.

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

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

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")