Character Quote by Walter Scott

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

— Walter Scott

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

— Aristophanes

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

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

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

— May Sarton

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

— Joan Larkin

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

— Bharati Mukherjee

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

— David Hockney

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you…

— Horace

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way.…

— Kwame Alexander

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison