Aids Quote by John Kinsella

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all…

— Robert Hass

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the…

— Adrienne Rich

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human…

— Bei Dao

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact,…

— Daphne Gottlieb

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I…

— W. H. Auden

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

— Eileen Myles

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath