Poetry Quote by Diane Wakoski

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna St. Vincent…

— Tracy K. Smith

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out…

— Francesca Lia Block

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with…

— Robert Graves

“POETRY SHAPES MY GENDER.”

— Amy King

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when…

— Dorianne Laux

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close…

— Anne Carson

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the…

— Helen Vendler

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in…

— Kim Hyesoon

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress…

— Robert Graves