Accomplished Quote by Howard Nemerov

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

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

— Kenneth Koch

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

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

— Eileen Myles

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

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But…

— Gerald Stern

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— 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

So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form…

— Simon Critchley

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski