Essentials Quote by May Sarton

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

— Norman MacCaig

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan

There's no one right way to teach poetry in schools.

— Michael Rosen

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

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new…

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

— May Sarton

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

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

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as…

— John Dewey

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

— Russell Baker