Yvor Winters

Here you will find the Poem On Teaching The Young of poet Yvor Winters

On Teaching The Young

The young are quick of speech. 
Grown middle-aged, I teach 
Corrosion and distrust, 
Exacting what I must. 

A poem is what stands 
When imperceptive hands, 
Feeling, have gone astray. 
It is what one should say. 

Few minds will come to this. 
The poet?s only bliss 
Is in cold certitude? 
Laurel, archaic, rude.