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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

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Book:Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

Source: Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

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Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'”

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Book:Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Source: Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

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Author:Mario Cuomo

“Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.”

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Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.”

Source: Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith

“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am for One peaceful world for all, Where hate has been overcome by love, And everyone is guided only By their conscience.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem