American poetry Quote by Yusef Komunyakaa

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout”

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the…

— Toni Morrison

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

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

— John Ashbery

When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why…

— Sam Hamill

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

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

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

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack