Available Quote by Diane Wakoski

Honest criticism is not direct war on the poet but upon the poetry.

— RMKATTA

“Sword-arm pauses. War-heat recedes. Sacred soul-sister silently pleads For only peace, which never has been. Only has such been seen within A soul with…

— Adam Scott Campbell

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and…

— Nikki Grimes

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities…

— June Jordan

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and…

— Henry Louis Gates

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which…

— Frantz Fanon

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

“...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was…

— James Salter

“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”

— Lucille Clifton

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but…

— Eavan Boland

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be…

— Eavan Boland