Annoyed Quote by Juliana Spahr

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

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

— May Sarton

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to…

— Stephen Dunn

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

— Robert Hass

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in…

— Garth Greenwell

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

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku