History Quote by Howard Nemerov

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to…

— Lu Xun

I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE…

— Rebecca Solnit

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself…

— Karl Marx

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you…

— June Jordan

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

— Ann Reinking

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes…

— Robert Morgan

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

— Anonymous

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his…

— Mike Tyson

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte