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  • There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Real Quotes , Political Quotes
  • Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Political Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Political Quotes