Behalf Quote by Aja Monet

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the…

— Edmond de Goncourt

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout”

— Sylvia Plath

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in…

— Kim Hyesoon

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

— Mahmoud Darwish

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or…

— Galway Kinnell

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

“In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.”

— Terry a O'Neal

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

— May Sarton