Quotes on Rhyming

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.