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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.

— Conor Oberst

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

— Missy Elliott

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.

— Gary Ross

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

— Anne Stevenson

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.

— James Fenton

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.

— Eminem

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

— Ice T

Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.

— Austin Clarke

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

— Saul Williams

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

— Chuck Berry

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

— Howard Nemerov

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