Decent Quote by Mark Strand

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to…

— John F. Kennedy

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

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison

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

— Michael Longley

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all…

— Robert Hass

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

— Billy Collins

So you have in Iraq some people falling prey to the system, some people managing to negotiate independence, and other people becoming outlaws, and…

— Elliott Colla

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

— Muriel Rukeyser

You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact…

— Amanda Gorman

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti