Air Quote by Cid Corman

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

— Juliana Spahr

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

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

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

— James Branch Cabell

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

— Sonia Sanchez

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

— Alice Walker

“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human existence. On…

— Russell Kirk

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

“Poet, writer and anti-royalist”

— Alan Hardy

“To be conservative in politics is to take one’s bearings not from the latest bright idea about how to make a better world, but…

— Kenneth Minogue