Pamphlet Quote by Maria Teresa Horta

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

— John Ashbery

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences:…

— Jan Theuninck

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal…

— Christopher Morley

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

— Diane Wakoski

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

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

— Fady Joudah