Complexity Quote by Kazuaki Tanahashi

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

— May Sarton

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— May Sarton

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

— Norman MacCaig

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

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go…

— Gary D. Schmidt

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows…

— Jeanette Winterson