“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 certainly a very important aspect of poetry. But I think that a lot of it is verse. I write well-wrought verse.” PeopleThinkingWritingWellsChildrenImportantLanguagePleaseAspectMusicalDelightVersesLyrical Author: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'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.” WayWritingMeanWholeFactsLanguageRealizingPoetry IsReach OutNew WaysRhymeRenewalRecreationSubtlety Author: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 been said quite that way before."” ThinkingWayGivingDoeSaidLanguageShiver Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
