Bird Quote by Norman MacCaig

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

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

— David Hockney

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

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

— Norman MacCaig

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

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

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

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

— Monica Youn

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

— Robert Morgan