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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.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Me , Opportunity , Imagination , Childhood


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.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Poetry , Reading , Way , I Can


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

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Everything , My Own , Imagination , Perfect


We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Need , Poetry , Mine , Ourselves


My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Me , Best , Wife , Brother


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.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Children , Writing , My Own , Voice


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.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Book , Writing , Too Much , Picture


Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Poetry , Enough , Smart , Adult


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.

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Myself , About , Reading , Facts


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

Author: Jack Prelutsky - American Poet
  Been , Poets , Influenced , Diverse


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