"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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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

Richard Burton, Welsh Actor

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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."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

David Antin, American Poet

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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"There are very few great poets in the world."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."

John Cleveland, English Poet

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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."

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

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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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"My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts."

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"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."

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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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"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."

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"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."

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"After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures."

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"I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first."

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