"One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would meet people and they'd quote my poems to me. It's great."

-- Mary Ann Hoberman

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Poet Quotes

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”
“Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys.”
“There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.”

Source : Madison Julius Cawein, “Haunters Of The Silence”
“What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.”
“I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.”
“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”
“The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.”

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