"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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"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 two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
-John Keats
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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