Children Quote by Francesca Lia Block

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

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

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

— Edwin Arnold

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

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was…

— Lucy Larcom

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

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet…

— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg