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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


#few #first #given #i #i write

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

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.


Gilda Radner


#clear #end #ending #hard #hard way

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!


Wislawa Szymborska


#guess #i #i write #love #much

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.


Marilyn Hacker


#book #everyone #going #novel #poems

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.


Andrew Motion


#i #poems #want #write

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.


Peter Porter


#each #illustrations #in other words #kind #only

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.


George Murray


#composing #develop #fragmented #hunter #i

Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt.


Jill Telford


#poems #poetry #self-publishing #art

Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt.


Jill Telford


#poems #poetry #art






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