#dr

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#drunk #feel #herbs #intense #made

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#dangerous #dream #dreaming #dreams #end

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#been #children #could #else #never

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #came #creatures #decided

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

— Jack Prelutsky

#combination #drawn #naturally #poetry #rhyme

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#career #children #consider #delightful #frankly

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #birds #down #dozen

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#enjoyed #go #good #groups #i

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#decided #draw #everything #i #imagination

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#bigger #book #books #collection #difference