Rhyme/history

Famous quotes containing the words rhyme and/or history:

    “I thought of rhyme alone,
    For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
    And make the daylight sweet once more....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)