Quotes About Learning

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

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

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.