I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth, Sits with the genius of the EarthAnd turns the key to the whole world.--"Hear It Again

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.