"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at……" — Jack Prelutsky
"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."
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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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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 Adult Quotes
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one of 1,513 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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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 grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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