Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. – Jack Prelutsky
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – its some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. – Jack Prelutsky
I look for poetry in English because its the only language I read. – Jack Prelutsky
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
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James