Jack Prelutsky Quotes

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I read mostly poetry.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.