Jack Prelutsky Quotes

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• The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
• His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.
• She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no…
• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
• I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
• I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun…
• I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it…
• I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is…
• I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
• My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we…
• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
• My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of…
• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

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