Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets…

“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with…

— J.K. Rowling

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

— Charles Ghigna

I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just dive in…

— Jean Craighead George

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

— Phyllis Diller

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

— James Russell Lowell

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's…

— Ruskin Bond

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem…

— Ralph Fletcher

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

— Anna Kamienska

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me…

— Barbara Hamby

“If you yourself paint or write poetry perhaps, you'll know how it feels to want to produce something ad be frustrated; your mind sulks…

— Kenneth Lillington