Celebrate Quote by Germaine Greer

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Audre Lorde

“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore stare mutely…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“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

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having…

— Charles Dudley Warner

There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents…

— Nancy Eimers

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

“Every woman is a living poem... Most men are limericks!”

— José N. Harris