Care Quote by Diane Wakoski

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

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

— Audre Lorde

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point…

— Diane Wakoski

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

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

— Compay Segundo

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

— Amy Clampitt

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel