Current events Quote by Diane Wakoski

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

— Eileen Myles

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

— Pablo Neruda

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

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I…

— Jack Bowman

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

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you…

— W. S. Merwin

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

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped…

— Simon Armitage

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

During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me.…

— Eavan Boland