Asks Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form…

— Simon Critchley

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

— Eileen Myles

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part…

— Yehuda Amichai

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

— Pablo Neruda

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

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

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

Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

— Kenneth Koch

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

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

— Zephyr Teachout