X. J. Kennedy Quotes

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

X. J. Kennedy Quotes

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

I have to say I really was surprised on my first world tour. It was amazing to see what we've always dreamed of, right before our eyes.

There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.

I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

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