Quotes About Protest Poetry

#1. Protest poetry
could there be consensus poetry?

William Stafford

#2. If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again ...

Ari Fleischer

#3. To be consumed with passion is to be gallant to discover

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

Judith Butler

#5. His voice is all peculiar and he's got a funny smell. Not hamsterish like Libby but sort of doggy/cheesy. I don't think all boys smell like that. Perhaps it's because he's my cousin.

Anonymous

#6. Silence can be a form of protest. It can be a means of survival. But it can also be a school of poetry - one with its own meter, tropes, and conventions. One that needn't be written with pencils or pens; but that can be written in the soul with a revolver to the chest." With

Amor Towles

#7. He holds the crown in the nonverval department

Colleen Hoover

#8. Your self is a cosmetic
fiction, a centrifuge.

Warren Heiti

#9. Your politics are so far right,
They're wrong.

Harry Whitewolf

#10. Change, change, change it all
Fuck the egg, it'll crack
And they point and condemn
Those these and them
Digiting a shower of crap

Kat Clark

#11. Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

#12. There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

Homer

#13. Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

Thelma Ritter

#14. Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

Morihei Ueshiba

#15. They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning.

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