Poetry is at its very roots tendentious.Posted by jane at June 12, 2007 03:56 PM | TrackBackIn my opinion, the line: 'I walk alone into the road' constitutes agitation: the poet agitates for girls to walk with him. It's boring, you see, on your own! Ah, if only there were poetry as powerful as calling people together into co-operatives!"
— Vladimir Mayakovsky, How Are Verses Made? (1926)