Average Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

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

— Kenneth Koch

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

“I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)”

— Mev Puleo

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

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

— Howard Nemerov

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your…

— Yehuda Amichai

“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

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so…

— Amber Tamblyn

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

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

— Fady Joudah