Quotes About Rebellion

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.

None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.

Don't be a slave to society!

Only true rebelliousness can change the world for the better. Be rebellious.

Love never follows laws.

If you want to conform, then how can you change?

To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society.

We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.