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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"Poets are born, not paid."
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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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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."
Poetry
"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career."
Poetry
"When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all."
Family
"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."
Life
"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."
Reading
"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."
Writing
"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."
Books
"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."
Music
"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect."
Imagination
"I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first."
Writing
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