Believe Quote by Gerald Stern

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your…

— Yehuda Amichai

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Kenneth Koch

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

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

The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet still a…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely