Artist Quote by Nikki Giovanni

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

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

— Sonia Sanchez

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special…

— Robert Hass

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

— Mario Cuomo

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a…

— Bob Dylan

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

— Frederick William Robertson

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how…

— John Lennon

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a…

— Sam Hamill

The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do…

— David Whyte