Poetics Quote by Alicia Ostriker

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination…

— Alicia Ostriker

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

— Shraddha Srinath

“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise…

— Socrates

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“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 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

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 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

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

— Marilyn Hacker