Faith Quote by Martin Espada

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

— June Jordan

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

— John Ashbery

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

— Kenneth Koch

The poem is a confession of faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part…

— Yehuda Amichai

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But…

— Gerald Stern

“Religion is the politics of faith”

— Pumpjackdude