Graduate Quote by Seamus Heaney

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

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

— Mark Strand

“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

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

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

— Robert Morgan

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down…

— Kevin Keck

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

— May Sarton

I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are…

— Cate Marvin

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

— Russell Baker

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

— Caterina Fake

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

— T. S. Eliot