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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop. ↗

— Dana Hussein

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's. ↗

— 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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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

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

— George Dennison Prentice

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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

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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