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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

— Jack Prelutsky

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way.…

— Kwame Alexander

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

— Jack Prelutsky

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

— Dennis Potter

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez