Communist Quote by Kate Braverman

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the…

— Hakim Bey

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

— Gregory Corso

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

— Anonymous

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

— Warren G. Bennis