Calves Quote by Gershon Legman

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

— José N. Harris

Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.

— Michael Rosen

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

To all men who read poetry; I bet if women had dicks, they'd shove them in your mouths to shut you the fuck up.

— Nikhil Saluja

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep…

— Wendy Cope

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

— Amy Clampitt

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

— Kenneth Rexroth

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a…

— Gary Snyder

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I've never thrown away a rhyme book.

— Too Short