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You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with…

— Ken Kesey

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation…

— Sam Hamill

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe…

— Donald Barthelme

You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact…

— Amanda Gorman

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

There are just some things about being president that are difficult.

— Ken Cuccinelli

Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems,…

— Stephen Burt

Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write…

— Mary Jo Salter

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs…

— Woodrow Wilson