Awful Quote by Simon Critchley

Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

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

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

— Eileen Myles

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

There's a cinema of prose and a cinema of poetry and the cinema of poetry is always involved with politics. That's because it works…

— Alice Rohrwacher

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

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

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and…

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Kenneth Koch

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes…

— John Ashbery