Generation Quote by Jason Reynolds

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

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

“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

I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— Anonymous

“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and…

— Adrienne Rich

“Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love. Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world…

— Josh Lanyon

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the…

— Edmond de Goncourt

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

— Roland Barthes

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

— Virginia Woolf

“Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble both by…

— Virginia Woolf