Book Quote by Charlotte Mason

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose…

— Charlotte Mason

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to…

— Masiela Lusha

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

— Beverly Cleary

I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

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

— Jack Prelutsky

I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting…

— Herman Melville

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

— Billy Collins

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning…

— Jim Trelease

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