Fitness Quote by Derek Walcott

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

— Robert Morgan

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

— David Hockney

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— May Sarton

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

— Norman MacCaig

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping…

— A. R. Ammons

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan