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Joy Nickolay

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“Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

tags: children-s

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“You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ”
― Maurice Sendak

tags: children

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“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

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“Each month is gay,
Each season nice,
When eating
Chicken soup
With rice”
― Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months

tags: childhood, children, poetry

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