#poe

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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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

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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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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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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

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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