Poetics Quote by Alicia Ostriker

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

— Alicia Ostriker

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of…

— Cate Marvin

“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism,…

— Terry Eagleton

“Sit in a quiet place and meditate in imagination that body is no more bondage to you, that it is your machine for your…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric…

— Alicia Ostriker

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from -…

— Eavan Boland

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the…

— Eavan Boland

I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The…

— Theodora Goss

New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the…

— Eavan Boland

I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only…

— Anna Wickham

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker