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

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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.

- Mary Ann Hoberman