"We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Kwame Alexander

#Fun Quotes #Kids Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jeff Greene". "Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Wire. Season 1", (2000– ).
“What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.”
“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”

Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.
“... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “A Fairly Good Time: with Green Water, Green Sky”, p.52, New York Review of Books
“If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation is not going to be met, you're going to be disappointed by a wrong turn. But when the thing is completed, the exhilaration and gratitude are deeply intense. You've gotten to read a great thing at its moment of emergence.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”
“Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.”

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