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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."
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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."
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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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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."
Books
"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."
Art
"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."
Friendship
"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
"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."
Books
"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."
Imagination
"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."
Poetry
"I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first."
Writing
"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career."
Poetry
"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."
Poetry
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