Lesson Quote by Sam Lipsyte

“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory had shown…

— Hermann Hesse

“Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not lived. Or…

— P.S. Baber

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or…

— Jeanette Winterson

Let yourself become living poetry.

— Rumi

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

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you…

— Anonymous

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what…

— Theodore Roethke

“There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the heart of men.…

— Friedrich Von Schiller

“Now listen to me, please: On a winter day, when you were a lycée student, it was snowing, and you were lost in thought.…

— Orhan Pamuk

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch