Children Quote by Wallace Stevens

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry is frosted fire.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

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

— Jack Prelutsky

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

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

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

— Anonymous

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin