I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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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.Jack Prelutsky
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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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.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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