Quotes About Community

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Man is by nature a political animal.