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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
- William Jay Smith
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#Enchantment
#Led
#Me
#Write
I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.
- William Jay Smith
#Always
#Good
#Never
#Notice
#Recognition
I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
- William Jay Smith
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#Attention
#Complain
#Happy
#Never
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
- William Jay Smith
#Age
#Beauty
#Loneliness
#Love
#Poor
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
- William Jay Smith
#End
#In The End
#Life
#Permanent
#Poet
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
- William Jay Smith
#Artist
#Every
#Experience
#Never
#Work
A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.
- William Jay Smith
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#Fresh
#Through
#Way
#Will
I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
- William Jay Smith
#Being
#Children
#Old
#Poet
#Sense
I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
- William Jay Smith
#Childhood
#Children
#Great
#Own
#Poetry
I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.
- William Jay Smith
#Still
#Time
#Typewriter
#Use
#Well
As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.
- William Jay Smith
#Experience
#Joy
#New
#Surprise
#Teacher
I believe that poetry should communicate.
- William Jay Smith
#Believe
#I Believe That
#Poetry
#Should
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