Book Quote by Charlotte Mason

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Mary Crow

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

— Nikki Giovanni

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

— Caterina Fake

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

— Ernest Shackleton

Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.

— Charles Ghigna

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

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

— John Drinkwater

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

— Jack Prelutsky

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path…

— Jane Hirshfield

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens