“And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.”– Norman MacCaig Related Quotes “Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.”– Erica Jong “So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.”– Thomas Lynch “I’m quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.”– Marguerite Young