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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

If you don't believe in dragons,
It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

I'm never bored.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

You're nasty and you're loud,
you're mean enough for two,
If I could be a cloud,
I'd rain all day on you.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets ... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.