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

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

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

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

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.