Doe Quote by Robert Hass

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra,…

— Anna Quindlen

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

— June Jordan

Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going to listen…

— Ted Genoways

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

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

— Eileen Myles

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

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

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey