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Poetry Quotes by Jack Prelutsky
- 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.
- I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
- Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
- We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
- 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…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden