Bad love Quote by Gerald Stern

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

— Kenneth Koch

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

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

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

— Howard Nemerov

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

To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

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 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

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

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