X. J. Kennedy Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.

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