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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

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

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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

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

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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

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

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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

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

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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

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Trust is the first step to love.

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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

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Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

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Love is so simple.

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