May Poem By Maurice Sendak Quotes & Sayings

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older. — Diana Quick

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly.
"Yes," answered Kenny," if you write them a very nice poem."
"What is an only goat?"
"A lonely goat," answered Kenny.
The rooster shut one eye and looked at Kenny.
"can you hear a horse on the roof?" he asked.
"If you know how to listen in the night," said Kenny.
"Can you fix a broken promise?"
"Yes," said Kenny,"if it only looks broken,but really isn't."
The rooster drew his head back into his feathers and whispered, "What is a very narrow escape?"
"When somebody almost stops loving you," Kenny whispered back. — Maurice Sendak

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. — Maurice Sendak

I would like to make you more aware of yourself as a human, and thus, ultimately a better person. — Peter Davis

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. — Wallace Stevens

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself. — Catherynne M Valente

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.' — Angela Kinsey

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. — Zoltan Kodaly

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there. — Markus Zusak

With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. — Charles Krauthammer