Activism Quote by Daphne Gottlieb

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

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Fady Joudah

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

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

— Alice Walker

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery

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

— Kenneth Koch

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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