Honest Quote by Audre Lorde

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

— Joy Harjo

There’s no preparation for poetry.

— Charles Simic

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

— Kwame Dawes

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

— Marilyn Hacker

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

— Helen Bevington

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

— Theodor Adorno

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A poem is no place for an idea.

— E. W. Howe

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

— William Empson

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel