Carrie Fisher Quotes

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

I like poems that are little games.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

I love playing with words and texture.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I like poems that are complex.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.