Animal Quote by Robert Pinsky

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old,…

— Mem Fox

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way.…

— Kwame Alexander

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

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

— Anonymous

[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about…

— Jim Jarmusch

“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

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson