Degrees Quote by Mike Young

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'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

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

— Kenneth Koch

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

— John Ashbery

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

— June Jordan

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

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

— Howard Nemerov

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and…

— Pablo Neruda

So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form…

— Simon Critchley

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

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

— Eileen Myles

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley