Best 13 quotes of J. Patrick Lewis on MyQuotes

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

The rat is the mous- tache in the trache. the wrong- doer in the soer.