Rhymer Quotes & Sayings

I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad. — William Butler Yeats

A lot of the old-school artists didn't even respect what's being called freestyle now ... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn't really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn't write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard — Kool Moe Dee

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not. — Peter Porter

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world. — Big Pun

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. — Dorothy Hamill

(The Eagles' song "Take It Easy") is clearly a problem of a young man, as no one over thirty-five could sustain interest in seven simultaneous relationships unless they're biracial and amazing at golf. — Chuck Klosterman

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach. — Heather Brewer

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about. — W.A. Mathieu

I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, ordinary thought in my head — Haruki Murakami

he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were. — Steve Jones

The pain done to Housman allowed him to rise above the mediocre and to find the words that most of us need help in order to say. The price paid by Housman was a life alone; the righteous rhymer enduring each year unloved and unable to love: — Morrissey

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision. — Nathan Eldon Tanner

The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship. — Nathaniel Branden

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go. — Alan Dale

The artist abandoning his poem, exasperated by the indigence of words, prefigures the confusion of the mind discontented within the context of the existent. Incapacity to organize the elements - as stripped of meaning and savor as the words which express them - leads to the revelation of the void. Thus the rhymer withdraws into silence or into impenetrable artifices. — Emil M. Cioran