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“In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.”

Song Mines Notes Scent Rhyme

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.”

Knows Want Soul Song Brain Paint Blow Pursuit Makers Rhyme Mute Butchers Bakers Flutes

Author:Robert Browning

“Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth”

Earth Song Jesus Peace Throat Rhyme Peace On Earth Christmas Time

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.”

Ifs Ends Moments Song Interest Lines Strange Sentences Not Sure Rhyme Interiors Emphasis Rhyming Playing Around

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.”

Giving Song Next Honor Highest Saint Theology Verses Rhyme Godly

Author:Martin Luther

“But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.”

Long Whole Song Sacred Whole Life Ministers Verses Rhyme Ridicule Long Life Slides Merry Touch Me Unlucky

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume

“Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.”

Knows Should Heart May Song Secret Music Sweet Rose Lips Repeats Melody Rhyme Fragrance Only Love Petals

Book:The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman

Source: The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.”

Said Sometimes Enough Wanted Song Fall Glory Hundred Faults Opening Urges Rhyme Unsaid

Author:Robert Hunter

“I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.”

Stills Song Saws Horrible Tape Rhyme

Author:Del Shannon

“As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.”

Thinking Way Want Kind Hard Jobs Song Stuff Difficult Be Good Pens Rhyme Better Than You

Author:Ariel Pink