“The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children’s literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.”
— X. J. Kennedy
“Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, “Street Moths,” The Lords of Misrule”
— X.J. Kennedy
“To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes–this is valuable experience, which literature offers.”
— X. J. Kennedy