POETRY APPLAUDS THE USA FOR NOT SUPPRESSING GEERT WILDERS

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"Whatever else, poetry is freedom."

. . . . . -- Irving Layton

"There is no force more subversive than poetry and that is why tyrants always feared it and sought to suppress it. But not only tyrants. Everyone who has a vested interest in preventing the individual from discovering the truth of his own self and his own capacities fears the liberating power that resides in poetry."

. . . . . -- Irving Layton

"In our age, the mere making of a work of art is itself a political act. So long as artists exist, making what they please and think they ought to make, even if it is not terribly good, even if it appeals to only a handful of people, they remind the Management of something managers need to be reminded of, namely, that the managed are people with faces, not anonymous members, that Homo Laborans is also Homo Ludens."
. . . . . -- W. H. Auden