Children Quote by Jack Prelutsky

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

— Anonymous

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

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

— Bharati Mukherjee

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

— Dennis Potter

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a…

— May Swenson

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right…

— Taylor Swift

“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

“The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in…

— Robert Hass