“I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.”– Dan Simmons Related Quotes “Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.”– Huston Smith “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.”– Calvin Trillin “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”– Robert Frost