Democracy Quote by Janet Erskine Stuart

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

— Brendan Kennelly

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

— Joyce Cary

There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by…

— Alissa Quart

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

— Seamus Heaney

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict…We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level,…

— Muriel Rukeyser

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