Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Williams

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

John Crowe Ransom

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

William Shakespeare

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

Thom Gunn

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

J. D. Hayworth

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Bubba Sparxxx

I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me...

Gertrude Stein

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Robert Morgan

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Mark Twain

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

Louis Tomlinson

And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.

H. P. Lovecraft

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

Sammy Cahn

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

Clement Attlee

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.