Making mistakes Quote by Gertrude Stein

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

“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

— Lucian of Samosata

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be…

— Eavan Boland

“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

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Audre Lorde

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

— Muhammad Iqbal

“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