"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as……" — Jack Prelutsky
"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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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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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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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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More Allan Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
— Margaret Atwood
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe…
— Quentin Crisp
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While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something…
— David Antin
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I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays…
— Linus Pauling
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By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled…
— Hugo Gernsback
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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of…
— Jules de Goncourt
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I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but…
— Unknown Author
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I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain…
— Unknown Author
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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
— Andy Richter
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
— William Friedkin
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Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.
— Chuck Eddy
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
— Harry Carey, Jr.
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