Country Quote by Eavan Boland

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from -…

— Eavan Boland

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

— Anais Nin

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

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

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the…

— Eavan Boland

“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

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

— Douglas Dunn

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

“The white western patriarchal ordering of things requires that we believe there is an inherent conflict between what we feel and what we think…

— Nancy K. Bereano (introduction to Sister Outsider

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke