I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perha...
A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,
Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally! - 150 -
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
Delores is a gorgeous name, for a gorgeous girl. Plus, it rhymes with ...and I really know my way around them. Big fan.
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.
Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you down ☺
It’s important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it’s not through a small screen
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
Love does not wait for the right person and the right time. It happens with anyone when the heart plays the rhyme.
