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


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EDWARD HIRSCH There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the...
GARY ROSS My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simple...
JAMES FENTON A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, ...
PEGGY NOONAN I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there&...
KATE GRENVILLE Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
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TOM HANKS People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make joke...
CAITLIN MORAN I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by thei...
RANDA HAINES I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and po...
ALAN FURST I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not...
CHUCK BERRY It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Highly important in poetry is Rhythm, but the word means merely 'flow,' so that rhythm belongs to pr...
ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL Some people imagine that rhyme interferes with the rational processes of thought by obliging us to d...
JOHN FREDERICK NIMS I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
STEPHEN SONDHEIM If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN When we step in the name of love, we cannot rhyme if we don't have the same RHYTHM, and we cannot ha...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
MISSY ELLIOTT Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's...
ERIN MCKEAN The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
EARLE BIRNEY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
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ROBINSON JEFFERS It kind of builds on the Burma Shave concept. When you start reading them, naturally you want to get...
BOB GROVE In some cultures, swear words are drawn mainly from sex and bodily functions, whereas in others, the...
GUY DEUTSCHER Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th...
ASHLEY TISDALE In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by p...
VINCE VAUGHN What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i...
CARRIE FISHER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are...
VANESSA CARLTON Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
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VIKRAM SETH I don't rap, I rhythmically evangelize.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, ...
DAVID ARCHULETA It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
JACK NICKLAUS The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves expe...
X. J. KENNEDY My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and po...
MICHAEL SHEEN Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I ...
KRISTAN HIGGINS I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, ...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not...
ROBERT PINSKY Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the ...
GEORGE MURRAY As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as ad...
ROBERT LANZA I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with r...
DAVID GALLAGHER I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, ...
DAVID A. STEWART I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
BEVERLY CLEARY Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people&...
C. K. WILLIAMS The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that i...
H. P. LOVECRAFT It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, mayb...
STEVEN WRIGHT We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems thems...
CARL SANDBURG I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does...
WAYNE WHITE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun ...
NATALIE ZEA If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, &#...
A. R. AMMONS My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it...
CONOR OBERST That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew...
DAVID AMRAM In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were in...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I ...
EMMA TENNANT White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove,...
JONI MITCHELL It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
CEELO GREEN This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme ...
JAMES FENTON Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It'...
GEORGE KENNEDY The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
K'NAAN It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. MILNE The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
NAS It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.
FUZZY ZOELLER Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or p...
LARRY GOLDSTEIN Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetr...
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DENNIS MUREN I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that k...
JILL SCOTT Some of them seem to convince themselves that this is a relationship.
KELLY ANDERSON Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm...
DAVID GALLAGHER And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ...
BILLY COLLINS And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really...
JESSE EISENBERG There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the ot...
DAVID CARRADINE Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
MOS DEF The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
FEDERICA MONTSENY Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
ROBERT BLY I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why...
ART ALEXAKIS When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason to bullying... it's not even the bully'...
DOVE CAMERON I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on &#...
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TIM BURTON We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children&...
RINGO STARR How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
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JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ...
JACK REYNOR I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c...
JACK REYNOR With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play...
JACK REYNOR As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
JACK REYNOR I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
JACK REYNOR If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p...
JACK REYNOR 'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a subs...
JACK REYNOR When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and a...
JACK REYNOR In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be ...
JACK REYNOR 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really i...
JACK REYNOR I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City ...
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