A rhyme doesn't make a song.
Dorothy Fields

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

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
Rosanne Cash

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky

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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
Paul Muldoon

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.
Jill Scott

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
Evan Dando

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
Bobby McFerrin

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Anne Stevenson

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
Missy Elliot

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.
Gilda Radner

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser

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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
Paul Muldoon

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
Kevin Eubanks

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
David Zucker

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
Joanna Newsom