Describing Quote by Robert Hass

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers.”

— Azar Nafisi

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

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

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

— Henry Ford

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

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

— Kenneth Koch

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

— Robert Hass

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

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point…

— Diane Wakoski

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