Quotes About Power

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.