Believe Quote by Langston Hughes

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and…

— Pablo Neruda

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point…

— Diane Wakoski

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

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

— John Ashbery

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative…

— Gayl Jones

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I…

— Eugenio Montale

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics…

— Ernest Hemingway

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

— Boris Johnson

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the…

— George Orwell

Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between art and…

— Katie Kitamura

Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I…

— Lucie Brock-Broido