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I look for poetry in English because its the only language I read.

I look for poetry in English because its the only language I read. – Jack Prelutsky

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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. – Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. 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. – Jack Prelutsky

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Otherwise I dont read much adult poetry at all, because Im not smart enough and mostly I dont get it. – Jack Prelutsky

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Ive written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. – J. Michael Straczynski

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. – Paul Auster

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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