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Quote by Jack Prelutsky
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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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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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. – Jack Prelutsky

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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Theres one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. – Robert Adamson

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