Change the world Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

A social consciousness should be reflected in your poetry.

— Gulzar

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the…

— Rollo May

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

— Anonymous

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

— Andrei Voznesensky

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

“In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.”

— Anonymous

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett