Theodore Roethke Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

  Theodore Roethke

  Inspirational, Faith, Teaching

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.93, Copper Canyon Press

• A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

  Theodore Roethke

  Teaching, Rooms, Suggestions

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.156, Copper Canyon Press

• The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

  Theodore Roethke

  Teaching, Damage, Contact

• Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

  Theodore Roethke

  Teaching, Fishing, Beginners

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.133, Copper Canyon Press

• O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."

  Theodore Roethke

  Jesus, Teaching, Use

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.134, Copper Canyon Press

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