Care Quote by Joan Larkin Download Open image “Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.” — Joan Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Care Community Education Given Grateful Poetry Teaching
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
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight… — A. R. Ammons 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 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
I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin 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've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
We all know what it feels like to love someone and care about them and want to protect them. — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about… — James Righton Copy Share Image
