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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.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

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

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

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