Believe Quote by Kwame Alexander

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

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to…

— Masiela Lusha

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

— Anonymous

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they…

— Rita Dove

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

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

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

— Dennis Potter

I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we…

— Arnold Adoff

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

— Bharati Mukherjee

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

— Jack Prelutsky

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives…

— Julie Andrews