Ifs Quote by Gerald Stern Download Open image “Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.” — Gerald Stern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Poetry Teaching Worthy
Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.” — BORGES JORGE LUIS Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets; I am going to push… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I see that… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“I think it's in Malone Dies that Beckett's creature is in a kind of prison or hospital. As I recall, he is visited twice… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not -… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
