Poetry Quote by Carrie Lorig Download Open image ““just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”” — Carrie Lorig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“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 Copy Share Image
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents… — Nancy Eimers Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore stare mutely… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“how that is the corpse's powerful capability That rupture The deaths of those disappeared and murdered by the State / and the bodies of… — Carrie Lorig Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
