Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is you need to talk with children to teachers and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

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.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

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

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

I was in three academic clubs a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down.

Aside from what it teaches you there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals the Peace Corps exchange students teachers exporting our music poetry blue jeans.

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions the Children of Abraham.

Islam teaches tolerance not hatred universal brotherhood not enmity peace and not violence.

If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war we shall have to begin with the children.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read I refused to do so.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes packaged cake mixes frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Teach us O Lord the disciplines of patience for to wait is often harder than to work.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Since the nature of people is bad to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature as well as the elements.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Nature that framed us of four elements warring within our breasts for regiment doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.