All time Quote by Ernest Shackleton

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

— Russell Baker

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

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

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

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new…

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

— May Sarton

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do,…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

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

— May Sarton

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are…

— Cate Marvin

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

— Sarah Kay