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

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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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"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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"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."

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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."

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"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."

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

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

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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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