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.

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

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.

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

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A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

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