Activism Quote by Fady Joudah

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

— Anonymous

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

— John Kinsella

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

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

— Eileen Myles

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

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

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating…

— Harold Bloom

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