Dogma Quote by Adrienne Rich

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But…

— Gerald Stern

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

— Kenneth Koch

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can…

— Langston Hughes

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery

During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me.…

— Eavan Boland

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

— Adrienne Rich

“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers.”

— Azar Nafisi

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you…

— W. S. Merwin