We All Need Ways To Express Ourselves,

My Wife Used To Tell Me One Of My Best Qualities Was That My Feet Don't Smell, But I Remember My Brother's Did When We Were Kids.

I Would Go To Sketch Groups And Draw. I Really Enjoyed The Subject Matter, But I Wasn't Good At It.

Poetry Seems To Sink Into Us The Way Prose Doesn't. I Can Still Quote Verses I Learned When I Was Very Young, But I Have Trouble Remembering One Line Of A Novel I Just Finished Reading.

When I Began Writing, I Didn't Read Any Other Children's Poets... I Didn't Want To Be Influenced Until I'd Found My Own Voice. Now I Read Them All.

I Always Knew Would Be Some Sort Of Artist, But Didn't Know What.