Country Quote by Langston Hughes

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

— Langston Hughes

“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

— Novalis

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate…

— Joshua Clover

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

— Pablo Neruda

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

— Martin Carter

Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too…

— Robert Hass

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

— Adrienne Rich

Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely