Quotes About Impact

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

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

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.