"I look for poetry in English because it's……" — Jack Prelutsky

"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."

— Jack Prelutsky

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29 Quotes by Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
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.
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin,…
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the…
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany…
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat…
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that…
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

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More English Quotes

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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