Poetry And Politics Quotes
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Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.
— Christopher Hitchens
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
— Robert Frost
In my poems I could not shut the door to the street.
— Pablo Neruda
The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king's affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modulates the king's affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
— William Everson
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
— John Quincy Adams
Every day I practice yoga, read poetry, and translate. What do I need politics for?
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.
— Marty Rubin
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
— Adrienne Rich
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
— Madame De Stael
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
— John F. Kennedy
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
— Richard M. Nixon
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
— Allen Ginsberg
I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.
— Kristin Hunter
There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.
— Woodrow Wilson
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
— Langston Hughes
I have not encouraged talk about man's holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man's right to have it.
— Mie Hansson
Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
— Harold Bloom
A politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man — E. E. Cummings
which everyone has sat except a man — E. E. Cummings
Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
— Christian Wiman
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
— Mario Cuomo
Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
— Aristotle.
Politics is about grievances.... Poetry is about grief.
— Raymond Paul
Your politics are so far right,
They're wrong. — Harry Whitewolf
They're wrong. — Harry Whitewolf
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
— Marvin Bell