Bored Quote by Amber Tamblyn

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

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

— Eileen Myles

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes…

— John Ashbery

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

— Kenneth Koch

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point…

— Diane Wakoski

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Howard Nemerov

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

— Brendan Kennelly

“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs…

— Woodrow Wilson

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

— Adrienne Rich

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout