Deals Quote by Yehuda Amichai

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

So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form…

— Simon Critchley

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

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But…

— Gerald Stern

To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your…

— Yehuda Amichai

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

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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