Gives Quote by Michael Rosen Download Open image “Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.” — Michael Rosen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gives Playground Release Us Writing
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
My father was adept at making up limericks about place names we encountered on holidays or others using the names of new people we… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which stretches back… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks. — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody… — Diana Georgeff Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their way in… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it.… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs and fours… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
You can give up the best years of your life knowing that no matter what you do or how you do it, your step-child… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making education better… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving as individuals,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Cricket is great for families, so long as you don't play by the proper rules and adapt it so the youngest can be helped… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment. — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than… — Gotye Copy Share Image
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
