Dirty Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

— Sonia Sanchez

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over…

— Adrienne Rich

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

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

— Zephyr Teachout

We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department -…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Buckingham argues that young people's lack of interest in news and their disconnection from politics reflects their perception of disempowerment. "By and large, young…

— Henry Jenkins

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents,…

— Hart Crane

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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