Ifs Quote by Gerald Stern

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

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to…

— Robert Pinsky

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

— Audre Lorde

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you…

— Robert Pinsky

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun…

— Antoine Fuqua

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different…

— Scott Simon

Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are…

— Anonymous

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

— Giacomo Casanova

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper