Complaining Quote by Sam Hamill

Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson…

— Camille Paglia

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care;…

— Diane Wakoski

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

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

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over…

— Adrienne Rich

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

— Eugene McCarthy

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet…

— David Biespiel

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

— Robert Hass