“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.” HumansStatesGovernmentPoliticalNationsHuman BeingsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPoetTheoryConcernTonePriestsProposeQuality Of LifeJohnsonBureaucratsAmerican LifePolitical Theory Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.” DoeGovernmentGroupsDangerousBuildingPoetHarderPoetry IsSensibilityOrganizeUndermining Author:Sam Hamill
“[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."” UseGovernmentSchoolLawTermTeacherPoetBrokenHigh SchoolMy FavoriteDeterminedEntitledSequenceSchool TeachersGagsHigh School Teachers Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely