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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.

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.

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.

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I am always personalizing tees to fit my personality, cutting off rocker shirts, debunking the mold of what traditional 'work wear' means, and always wearing my cause.

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

I write for myself – but it is nice when other people like it, too!

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