Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
Poetry is frosted fire.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.