Because Quote by Chad Harbach

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

— Willa Cather

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

— Simon Schama

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

— Billy Collins

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary.…

— Tracy K. Smith

High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school,…

— Phil Kay

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

— Erica Jong

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George