J. Patrick Lewis Quotes

• Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Writing, Hunting, Perfect

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• Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Tunnels, Light, Poetry

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• The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Fashion, Spring, Wings

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• A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Apology, Tree

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• A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Apology, Tree

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• Poetry is frosted fire.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Fire, Poetry, Poetry Is

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• Spotted Park Bench
  I am a park bench.
  Ordinary words cannot
  express my thoughts on birds.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Bird, Ordinary, Benches

  J. Patrick Lewis (2014). “If You Were a Chocolate Mustache”, p.98, Highlights Press

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• I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  World, Reader, Always Believe

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• Libraries
  Are
  Neccessary
  Gardens,
  Unsurpassed
  At
  Growing
  Excitement

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Garden, Library, Growing

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• I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Library, Coffins, Bookworms

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• The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Children, Couple, Book

  Source: poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

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• Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Poetry, Shapes, Bent

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• Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Long, Library, Dozen

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• "Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Mustache, Chocolate

  Source: poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

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