Computers Quote by Fady Joudah

We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in…

— Fady Joudah

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

— Fady Joudah

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

— Luis Bunuel

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets,…

— C.D. Wright

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level…

— Rita Dove

Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.…

— Michael Rosen

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

Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive…

— Fady Joudah

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman