It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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.
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.
We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.