American poetry Quote by Robert Morgan

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

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

— Norman MacCaig

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living…

— Marilyn Hacker

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed…

— Edward Hirsch

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

— Edward Hirsch

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it…

— Joseph Brodsky

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took…

— Juliana Spahr

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure…

— Diane Wakoski

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

— May Sarton