Government Quote by Michael Rosen

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— June Jordan

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in…

— William Faulkner

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

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining…

— Sam Hamill

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger