Prelutsky Poetry Quotes

#1. It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.

Jasmine V

#2. Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

Juliana Hatfield

#3. Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

Jillian Hervey

#4. Hey, man, I like to look good; I wear make-up.

Nikki Sixx

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

Jack Prelutsky

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

Jack Prelutsky

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

Jack Prelutsky

#8. 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.

Jack Prelutsky

#9. I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

#10. The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white,
Do little else but write and write.
Although they've nothing much to say,
They write and write it anyway ...

Jack Prelutsky

#11. Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Jack Prelutsky

#12. At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

Charles Lindbergh

#13. While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead ... While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Confucius