Drinking Quote by Yehuda Amichai

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 a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A teapot is a book carrying liquid poetry, and each serving brings new solace to the thirsty reader.”

— Akash Mandal

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

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Eileen Myles

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to…

— John F. Kennedy

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

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

“Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort,”

— Tsh Oxenreider