Education Quote by Robert Morgan

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation,…

— Derek Walcott

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines…

— Robert Pinsky

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

— C. K. Williams

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

— James Broughton

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

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

— May Sarton