Education Quote by T. S. Eliot

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

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

— May Sarton

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters…

— Vikram Seth

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

— Norman MacCaig

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

— John Fuller