Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader Quotes

“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader

“The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader