Karla Kuskin famous quotes
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If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.
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If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.
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The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.
-- Karla Kuskin
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
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There's always a way to wear fur,
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I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.
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Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67
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Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?
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It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
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How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
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