J. Patrick Lewis Quotes
A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.

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

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I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

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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.

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LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

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

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The Book BoothThere's not a big selection,It's not locked for protection,But at the intersectionOf Booth and Telephone,Two customers politelyCan snuggle in it (tightly)And go once over (lightly)The books they'd like to own."Readcycle" means . . . Read more

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The Universal Turtle VerseI spend the day nibbling rent-freeUnderneath the Giving Tree.Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry JakeShow Runny Babbit how to makeUp verses. Then I lug my hump(Careful not to bump the Glump)Into the woods to trade a wordWith the argle . . . Read more

-J. Patrick Lewis