“Oh, there are little rhymes a mage might use to remember the sequence of what must be done, but the words themselves don't do a thing. You could write every 'spell' as high as a man on the barn wall, but if you don't have the power to start with, all you'd have is a strange rhyme. And a bad one at that".”

“Rappers use words that rhymes, But When Lil Wayne Used Rhymes They don't really mean nothing.”

“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”

“MCs don't just rhyme sounds, they rhyme ideas.”

“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. Allthe best poets write in rhyme.""Really?""Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that.”

“I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.”