Humanist Quote by David Biespiel

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over…

— Adrienne Rich

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

— Kenneth Koch

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

— Robert Hass

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

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

Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and…

— Pablo Neruda

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

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

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