Quotes from Lee Bennett Hopkins

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Please give me strength to laugh the strength to try the strength to laugh the strength to cry the strength to hope the strength to cope the strength to one day say good-bye to fly into a bright sky.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Been to yesterdays, lived through todays. Looking on toward tomorrows - new characters, new plays. The whys of life change, and so do ways, new scenery is built, to fill an empty stage.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all.

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.