Prelutsky Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication. — Pol Pot

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

this is the truth: women and men need each other. — Lacey Sturm

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back. — Michael Franti

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

When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't know how you scared me!' These people are grown up. They say, 'When I was a kid, I just couldn't sleep at night.' Sometimes they will have babies with them. And they give me their babies, and they take pictures of me holding their baby. — Betsy Palmer

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you. — Marilyn Vos Savant

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

You have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove. — Stieg Larsson

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams. — Lord Dunsany

I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
I simply know that I I I
am am inclined to say to say
a lot a lot this way this way-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.

I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
My mom my mom gets mad gets mad,
it irritates my dad my dad,
it drives them up a tree a tree,
that's what they tell they tell me me-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.

I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
It gets me in a jam a jam,
but that's the way I am I am,
in fact I think it's neat it's neat
to to to to repeat repeat-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat. — Jack Prelutsky

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. — Jack Prelutsky

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