"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect."
-Jack Prelutsky
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"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.“
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"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."
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"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."
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"We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine."
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"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career."
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"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-Dr. Seuss
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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