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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 but doesn’t taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry  (Teaching Poetry Quotes) Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition  (Teaching Poetry Quotes)