Poetry Quote by Rainbow Rowell

“Is it that important? Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do…

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

“There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it has to…

— Robert Hunter

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”

— Cath Crowley

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.”

— Salmon Rushdie

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

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

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

— George W. Bush