Best teacher Quote by Mary Oliver

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

— Julia Glass

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

— Randall Jarrell

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something…

— Alice Oswald

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

— Annie Proulx

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...…

— T. S. Eliot

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut