Rhyme Quotes

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.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

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)

~ W.b. Yeats

Witches, he thought. Always rhyming.

~ Nora Roberts

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

~ Peter Porter

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

~ Rick Riordan

Champagne morning, sleepless grin, setting off and settling in. Today feels good.

~ Alex Gaskarth

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!

~ Philip Pullman

Chance is your godThough you're falling free you will land hard

~ Criss Jami

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

The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony

~ Jennifer Reeser

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

~ Jean Giraudoux

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

~ Francis Beaumont

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

~ Saul Williams

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

~ Victor Hugo

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.

~ Tim O'brien

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.

~ James Fenton

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

~ Jack Prelutsky