Quotes About Impact

Information has more power than any atom bomb.

Be so strong that no one can ignore you.

By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society.

I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

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

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Poetry makes nothing happen.