“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.” ThinkingWritingChildrenWrittenPoetVerses Author: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 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
“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 sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there.” WritingHouseBornCatWindowContemporarySunshinePensYellowFountainAugustPadsFountain PensSunspots Author: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.” WritingFirstsIdeasComputerFingersScratches Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
