Poet Quote by Eavan Boland

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

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine…

— Kim Hyesoon

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

— Audre Lorde

“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

“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.”

— Sara Ahmed

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that…

— Margaret Atwood

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope