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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. — Lawrence Summers

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

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 central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality. — Martin Carter

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

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. — Aberjhani

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar. — Kristin Hunter

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. — Joseph Howe

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics. — Pablo Neruda

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

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. — Peter Prasad

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

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

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

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

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty ... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189) — Mev Puleo

Your politics are so far right,
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

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — Zephyr Teachout