Air Quote by Sylvia Plath

I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean,…

— Sylvia Plath

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

— May Sarton

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Joan Larkin

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the…

— Helen Dunmore

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you…

— Robert Pinsky

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