Rhyme Quotes

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.