'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. (Al Purdy)

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. (Jack Prelutsky)

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. (Carl Jung)

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. (Ian Hamilton Finlay)

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. (Bill Moyers)

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. (Barry Commoner)

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. (Katherine Dunham)

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. (Laura Linney)

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. (Ralph Allen)

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. (A. R. Ammons)

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. (Robert Sternberg)

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. (Frederic William Farrar)