Short fiction is the medium I love the most because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that though lacking a novel's length satisfies the reader.

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.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

While also importantly not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone but everyone should have the choice.

Everything is complicated if that were not so life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now throwing information at you making everything available to you and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.