#me

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

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 keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#childhood #i #influenced #life #me

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#govern #many #men #might #multitudes

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#brother #did #feet #i #i remember

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#fighting #must #peace #terror #times