Poetry Quote by Martin Amis

“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their…

— Geoff Ryman

“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about…

— Robert Hass

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful…

— Robert Hass

“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell…

— Hayden Carruth

I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay…

— Seamus Heaney

I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to…

— Robert Hass

“The word communist + a large bonfire + a collection of dead letters + the suffering of her mother + the death of her brother = the Führer”

— Markus Zusak

“He said he ate his food out of our big refrigerators, drove our eight-cylinder American cars, un-hesitatingly used our medicines when he was sick,…

— J.D. Salinger

“This may read like a mad journey through some of the most dangerous places on earth, but it is much more than that as…

— Oliver Bullough

“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words set prettily…

— Therese Anne Fowler