Quotes About Learning

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

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

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Reading musses up my mind.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.