Nervous Quote by Sarah Kay Download Open image “Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.” — Sarah Kay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nervous People Poetry School
Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of the test… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.” — Mary Crow Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.” — BORGES JORGE LUIS Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I want to… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Once, she fell off of a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore no matter how many times it is sent away.” — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“What is it about immortality? With the right sword and shield, we think we can fend off anger, fear, and hatred. If our legs… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“And the spaces that he never saw: the ones my parents had labeled private parts when I was still small enough to fit all… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous,… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,… — Margaret Fishback Copy Share Image
One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
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