Poetry Quote by June Jordan

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details…

— Emily Gould

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

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the…

— Toni Morrison

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

— John Ashbery

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why…

— Sam Hamill

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'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

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I…

— Jack Bowman

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice.…

— Alissa Quart