Engaged Quote by Simon Armitage

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

— Pablo Neruda

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me.…

— Eavan Boland

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

— Eileen Myles

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I…

— Jack Bowman

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case…

— Ghassan Kanafani

There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you…

— W. S. Merwin

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with…

— Jamie Hince

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

— Adrienne Rich

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman,…

— Maria Teresa Horta