Age Quote by Terry Eagleton

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of…

— Octavio Paz

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry…

— Dana Gioia

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

— Robert Frost

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

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

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

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all…

— Robert Hass

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth