Vintage Quotes Vintage Quotes January 30, 2019 Alexander Van Berg Dire conditions in Venezuela have forced the medical community to resort to protests that would have previously been inconceivable. Photograph courtesy of Federico Parra / AFP / Getty Images. A poem is a protest, a protest is a poem. Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers† Photograph courtesy of Getty Images. Photograph courtesy of Atlas. † This is the way I like to remember it. Online sources note the dialogue as: “A petition is a poem, a poem is a petition.”, which in this case is provably not as memorable.