Bondage Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite…

— James Parton

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which…

— Audre Lorde

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Audre Lorde

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels…

— Thomas Carlyle

“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's Against your…

— Gertrud Kolmar

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

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

— John Cage