"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's……" — Jack Prelutsky
"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."
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Jack Prelutsky
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29 Quotes by Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky has 29 quotes on this site.
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The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin,…
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She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the…
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany…
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat…
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that…
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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