Individual Quote by Camille Paglia

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my…

— Bruce Springsteen

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one…

— Roger Zelazny

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

— Feist

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at…

— Walter Dean Myers