I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.
A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never bee… - Mary Ann Hoberman
A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never bee…
- Mary Ann Hoberman
One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would … - Mary Ann Hoberman
One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would …
I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child. - Mary Ann Hoberman
I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.
I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I … - Mary Ann Hoberman
I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I …
I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all. - Mary Ann Hoberman
I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certain… - Mary Ann Hoberman
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certain…
I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a… - Mary Ann Hoberman
I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a…
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you… - Mary Ann Hoberman
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you…
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first. - Mary Ann Hoberman
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.
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