A Quote by X. J. Kennedy

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

X. J. Kennedy

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X. J. Kennedy
American - Author
Born: August 21, 1929

Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Kool Keith

Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick

Daryl Barnes

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

Mason Cooley

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

Thom Gunn

I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't know where the poems come from, and I feel, at least in the beginning, that I'm taking dictation from my own dream that I don't remember.

Mary Jo Salter

This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.

James Fenton

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

Floyd Skloot

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

Joel Osteen

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

Margaret Atwood

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

Felix Dennis

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.

Robert Burns

There seems to be no rhyme or reason for Aleister Black and Bobby Lashley to collide, because the world teaches us that sometimes there is no reason or rhyme for conflict.

Aleister Black

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

John Hurt

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Roberto Cavalli

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.

Claire Messud

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