--- title: "10 Woman Poet Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Woman Poet quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Woman Poet sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/lucille-clifton-12072_black_i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like_1761741.jpg" --- > [“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like-one/) [Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/lucille-clifton-12072_black_i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like_1761741.jpg) > [And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-garlin-spencer/and-when-her-biographer-says-of-an-italian-woman-poet-during-some/) [Anna Garlin Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-garlin-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/anna-garlin-spencer-26212_biographers_and-when-her-biographer-says-of-an-itali_3060567.png) > [“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yu-hsuan-chi/how-i-hate-this-silk-dress-that-conceals-a-poet-written-in-the-mid/) [Yu Hsuan-Chi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yu-hsuan-chi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e23/yu-hsuan-chi-288043_fashion_how-i-hate-this-silk-dress-that-conceals_367445.jpg) > [It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/it-has-always-seemed-to-me-a-great-honor-to-be-called-an-irish-poet-i/) [Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29e/eavan-boland-14364_honor_it-has-always-seemed-to-me-a-great-honor_79338.png) > [The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/the-woman-poet-must-be-either-a-sexless-reclusive-eccentric-with/) [Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/marilyn-hacker-13845_brilliant_the-woman-poet-must-be-either-a-sexless_1813733.png) > [So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-wakoski/so-i-ve-never-been-politically-correct-even-before-that-term-was/) [Diane Wakoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-wakoski/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a7/diane-wakoski-15416_available_so-i-ve-never-been-politically-correct-e_635619.png) > [“Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/examine-this-statement-a-woman-cannot-be-a-poet-dr-samuel-johnson/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b2/jeanette-winterson-166_big-mouth_examine-this-statement-a-woman-cannot-be_3179516.png) > [As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/as-far-as-i-was-concerned-it-was-the-absence-of-women-in-the-poetic/) [Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/eavan-boland-14364_poet_as-far-as-i-was-concerned-it-was-the-abs_747121.png) > [“...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-salter/at-a-luncheon-i-sat-next-to-a-green-eyed-young-woman-a-poet-who/) [James Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-salter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/james-salter-2584_book_at-a-luncheon-i-sat-next-to-a-green-eyed_1810220.jpg) > [“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrud-kolmar/the-woman-poet-die-dichterin-you-hold-me-now-completely-in-your-hands/) [Gertrud Kolmar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrud-kolmar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f20/gertrud-kolmar-33363_poetry_the-woman-poet-die-dichterin-you-hold-me_136370.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/woman-poet/#itemlist", "name": "Woman Poet Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lucille Clifton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/lucille-clifton-12072_black_i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like_1761741.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/lucille-clifton-12072_black_i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like_1761741.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/lucille-clifton-12072_black_i-am-a-black-woman-poet-and-i-sound-like_1761741.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.” — Lucille Clifton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anna Garlin Spencer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-garlin-spencer/and-when-her-biographer-says-of-an-italian-woman-poet-during-some/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/anna-garlin-spencer-26212_biographers_and-when-her-biographer-says-of-an-itali_3060567.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/anna-garlin-spencer-26212_biographers_and-when-her-biographer-says-of-an-itali_3060567.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/anna-garlin-spencer-26212_biographers_and-when-her-biographer-says-of-an-itali_3060567.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do…” — Anna Garlin Spencer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. 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The host, a fine old man in seventies, heard her and disagreed. His hair was white. His voice that the faint shrillness of age. “No, everything I’ve ever learned,”, he said, “has come from books. 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My heart beats like a frightened little bird's Against your palm. Take heed! You do not think A person lives within the page you thumb. To you this book is paper, cloth, and ink, Some binding thread and glue, and thus is dumb, And cannot touch you (though the gaze be great That seeks you from the printed marks inside), And is an object with an object's fate. And yet it has been veiled like a bride, Adorned with gems, made ready to be loved, Who asks you bashfully to change your mind, To wake yourself, and feel, and to be moved. But still she trembles, whispering to the wind: \"This shall not be.\" And smiles as if she knew. Yet she must hope. A woman always tries, Her very life is but a single \"You . . .\" With her black flowers and her painted eyes, With silver chains and silks of spangled blue. She knew more beauty when a child and free, But now forgets the better words she knew. A man is so much cleverer than we, Conversing with himself of truth and lie, Of death and spring and iron-work and time. But I say \"you\" and always \"you and I.\" This book is but a girl's dress in rhyme, Which can be rich and red, or poor and pale, Which may be wrinkled, but with gentle hands, And only may be torn by loving nails. So then, to tell my story, here I stand. The dress's tint, though bleached in bitter lye, Has not all washed away. It still is real. I call then with a thin, ethereal cry. You hear me speak. 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