Education Quote by Nikki Giovanni

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 the most bodily of the arts.

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

— Amy Lowell

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

— Russell Baker

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley

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

— May Sarton

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

— Gerald Stern

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

— William Shakespeare