"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."
-Jack Prelutsky
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"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.“
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"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career."
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"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."
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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."
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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."
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"We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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