Agents Quote by Herbert Read

“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of…

— Julio Cortázar

I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled…

— Raegan Butcher

“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment…

— Jacques Ellul

“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners…

— Samuel Johnson

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on…

— Rose Macaulay

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression and domination,…

— Noam Chomsky

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art…

— Dean Cavanagh