Quotes from Dennis Lee

How empire permeates!

It would be better maybe if we could stop loving the children and their delicate brawls, pelting across the square in tandem, deking from cover to cover in raucous celebration and they are never winded, bemusing us with the rites of our own gone childhood; if only they stopped mattering, the children, it might be possible, now while the square lies stunned by noon.

And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real

Skyscraper Skyscraper, skyscraper, Scrape me some sky: Tickle the sun While the stars go by. Tickle the stars While the sun's climbing high, Then skyscraper, skyscraper Scrape me some sky.

I Found a Silver Dollar I found a silver dollar, But I had to pay the rent. I found an alligator But his steering-wheel was bent. I found a little monkey, So I took him to the zoo. Then I found a sticky kiss and so I brought it home to you.