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Rhyming Quotes

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.

"At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn't Done Yet". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 11, 2015.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

'Tamburlaine the Great' (performed c.1588, published 1590) pt. 1, prologue

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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

'La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu' (1935; translated as 'Tiger at the Gates' by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 1