Intelligence Quote by Adrienne Rich

“It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.”

— Robert F. Young

“I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost an opportunity, betrayed the wonder in me by privileging the appearance…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“She was a woman who knew who she was and how she had gotten there.”

— Lisa Mangum

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“She didn’t know where this path would take her or how she’d fare, but the unknowns didn’t scare her like they used to. After…

— Melissa K. Magner

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“… and she understood that all forms of knowledge contain an element of transgression.”

— Maylis de Kerangal

“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— PG Wodehouse

“mutual frankness that she could work out who she herself was and what she actually wanted.”

— Rachel Cusk

“Who knows how great are the secret pangs of conscience?”

— Publius Syrus

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing how terrible…

— Plato