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

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.

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

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.

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

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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

I want to do something that can support all the people in Korea and the world who see us and are inspired to do their own thing.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

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