And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even… — Yu Hsuan-Chi Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
