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“Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.”

“The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.”

Years Heart Shows Poetry Fire Blood Tears Poet My Heart Gaps Journal Rhyme Lamps Deliverance Olden Times

Book:The Poems of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor

“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.”

People Men Soul Poetry Wish Behinds He Man Worthy Oil Merit Dread Rhyme Applause Cedars Herring Time To Leave Frankincense

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”

Poetry Powerful Common Numbers Crime Sweet Lows Flow Unions Errors Ease Subtle Cheeks Rhyme Soar Confined Polished Poignant Crimson Common Life Sportive

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.”

Dream Eye Poetry Women Perfect Beauty Poet Clouds Poetry Is Pale Rhyme Eyelids Perfect Beauty

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

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

Happiness Poetry Trouble Poet Sweet Beats Rhyme Me Alone Daylight

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.”

Poetry Force Poet Gaps Muse Rhyme Meter

Author:Mason Cooley

“I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.”

Men Poetry Loss Poet Kings Spring Envy Rhyme Nightingales

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.”

Poetry Poet Elements Constant Likes Damn Verses Rhyme Smack

Author:Ezra Pound

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

Reason Poetry Rhyme

Author:Thomas More

“Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?”

Want Helping Poetry Poet Blessed Structure Plot Rhyme

Book:Robert Lowell: a tribute

Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute

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

Poetry Darkness Rhyme

Book:Poems, 1965-1975

Source: Poems, 1965-1975

“For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.”

Men Past Poetry Hours Talking Fire Wit Fancy Pens Prime Muse Rhyme Jade

Book:Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

Source: Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

“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.”

Poetry Names Fun Aim Raises Court Vain Cash Rhyme Clash Lashes

Author:Robert Burns

“Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!”

May Stills War Reason Poetry Rhyme Jars Syllables

Author:Ben Jonson

“Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?”

Feels Poetry Poet Rounds Bread Ruins Shed Rhyme Flattery Barren Myrtle

Author:George Crabbe

“Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.”

Thinking Poetry Lines Mines Brother Add Hip Hop Rap Ems Rhyme Emcee

Author:Rakim

“The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.”

May Used Poetry Term Simple Subjects Involved Mathematics Nine Rhythm Consideration Ethical Verses Rhyme Convenient Meter Pedantry

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.”

Doe Art Poetry Poet Easier Paper Tasks Painter Pens Canvas Rhyme Brushes

Author:Robert Breault

“Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.”

Ifs Giving Art Enough Form Poetry Winning Results Masters Authority Fairs Affection Command Drunk Firm Servant Etc Household Rhyme Meter Orderly

Author:W. H. Auden

“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.”

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

“I don't let boys make me cry I write rhymes and fucking fly Been to Hell- check out my wrists Came back King- check out my Mist -from 'Came Back KIng”

Humor Poetry Strength Rhyme Indie Author Indie Poet Small Press

Book:Confessions of a D3AD Petal

Source: Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this love that makes me declare 'I love you' even though I uttered it only a moment ago? What is this love that keeps growing even when my chest is sore and it hurts to love you any more? Tell me: How am I to find what this love is when it was the one to find you, me, this verse, and this universe?”

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