J. Patrick Lewis quotes
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“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.”
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“Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.”
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“A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.”
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“Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.”
-- J. Patrick LewisSource : J. Patrick Lewis (2014). “If You Were a Chocolate Mustache”, p.98, Highlights Press
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“I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.”
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“Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement”
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“A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.”
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“I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.”
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“Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses”
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“The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.”
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