Lessons Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— May Sarton

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

— May Sarton

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

— Ernest Shackleton

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield