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Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when…

— Daphne Gottlieb

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do…

— Adrienne Rich

“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great…

— Robert Graves

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

— Fady Joudah

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal…

— Christopher Morley

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

— Seamus Heaney

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

“Poetry, like remonstration, could be a form of protest; and since poets were products of the Confucian education system, extravagant military adventures often came…

— John Keay

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris