Commit Quote by Hakim Bey

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

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

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society…

— William C. Brown

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so…

— Pete Seeger

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

— John Dryden

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus