Choices Quote by Andrew Ng

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

— Sylvia Plath

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

— Ernest Shackleton

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

— Victoria Chang

“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.”

— George Gordon Byron

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

— Gerald Stern

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you…

— Anonymous

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS